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FEBRUARY  23-MARCH  7,1992 


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Jim  Garrison 


CLAY  SHAW,  THE 
QUEAN  NETWORK  AND 
THAT  KENNEDY  KILLING 


Iast  issue,  in  Part  One  of  this  piece  (based  on  an  article  that 

appeared  in  Fag  Rag  back  in  1975),  Mitzel  explained  how  direc¬ 
tor  Oliver  Stone  came  to  make  his  “vilely  anti-faggot”  movie, 
JFK .  That  Stone  was  one  of  a  long  line  of  people  who  believed 
that  there  had  been  a  conspiracy  to  kill  John  F.  Kennedy  and 
that  the  Warren  Commission  Report  investigating  the  assassina¬ 
tion  was  only  so  much  hokum,  was  not  the  issue  for  Mitzel.  He  took  Stone  to 
task  for  “reviving  the  smears  on  Clay  Shaw  that  were  cooked  up  by  New 
Orleans  D.A.  Jim  Garrison  and  his  Mob  back  in  1967.” 

Mitzel  asserted  that  Garrison  framed  Shaw,  a  prominent  gay  businessman 
in  that  city,  for  conspiring  to  kill  the  President  of  the  United  States.  It  took  a 
jury  50  minutes  to  acquit  Shaw,  but  not  before  years  of  expensive  legal  wran¬ 
gling  that  brought  about  the  virtual  destruction  of  Shaw’s  reputation  and  per- 

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’93  March 
on  D.C.  to 
include  bi’s, 
but  not 
disabled 

First  national  meeting  in  LA., 
second  New  England  meeting  focus 
on  title  and  representatives 

By  Carrl*  Wofford 

LOS  ANGELES— The  1993  National 
March  on  Washington  will  be  a  march  for 
“Lesbian,  Gay  and  Bi  Equal  Rights  and 
Liberation,”  at  least  in  the  official  name  of 
the  march.  Regional  representatives  from 
around  the  country  gathered  the  third  week¬ 
end  in  January  in  their  first  national  planning 
session  for  the  April  1993  march. 

Planning  details  were  dropped  in  favor  of 
long  discussions  over  what  to  call  the  march, 
according  to  Mandy  Carter,  one  of  five  rep¬ 
resentatives  from  the  Mid-Atlantic  region, 
and  the  director  of  the  North  Carolina 
Lesbian  and  Gay  Political  Action  Agenda. 

“We  spent  most  of  the  time  coming  up  with 
the  name  of  the  march,”  she  and  others 
reported. 

Bisexuals  in  march  title 

In  debating  whether  to  include  bisexuals 
and  transgenderal  people,  the  representatives 
decided  the  national  movement  is  “not  ready 
yet”  for  transgenderal  people  to  be  in  the  for¬ 
mal  title — although  their  participation  will 
not  be  questioned — and  that  “bi”  is  prefer¬ 
able  over  “bisexual”  because  of  concern  over 
public  attention  to  anything  “sexual,”  as 
Carter  described  it. 

“I  was  one  of  the  ones  who  didn’t  want 
bisexual  [in  the  title],"  Carter  said.  She  said 
she  was  convinced  in  part  because  of  the 
atmosphere  of  cooperation.  “People  were 
really  struggling  hard  to  make  this  work....  I 
like  the  group.  I  trust  the  group.” 

Carter  reported  that  there  was  no  discus¬ 
sion  of  excluding  certain  people  from  the 
march,  such  as  Republican  men  or  Gulf  War 
soldiers — a  topic  of  debate  at  the  New 
England  regional  meeting  in  Boston,  Dec.  7 
(See  GCN,  Vol.  19,  No.  22).  “Even  [exclud¬ 
ing]  NAMBLA  didn’t  come  up,”  she  said. 
Additionally,  Carter,  an  African  American 
activist,  was  impressed  by  the  “real  commit¬ 
ment  to  racial  [and]  gender  parity...  that  I 
haven’t  seen  in  quite  a  while,”  embodied  by 
the  decision  that  no  votes  would  occur  with¬ 
out  parity. 

No  disabled  representative 

However,  Carter  found  the  exclusion  of  a 
seat  on  the  steering  committee  for  a  differ¬ 
ently  abled  activist  “odd,”  especially  given 
the  presence  of  two  disabled  people  who 
expressed  interest.  Seats  for  people  with 
AIDS,  people  of  color  and  women  were  set 
aside  on  the  20-odd  member  steering  com¬ 
mittee. 

While  the  work  of  determining  a  platform 
and  budget  were  set  aside  for  the  next 
national  meeting.  May  8-10  in  Dallas,  repre¬ 
sentatives  did  establish  task  forces,  including 
the  national  steering  committee,  which  will 
be  meeting  in  early  February  in  Washington, 

D.C.  They  also  set  a  goal  of  one  million  par¬ 
ticipants,  up  from  750,000  in  1987,  and 
decided  to  include  a  “real  slant”  on  legisla¬ 
tive  work,  with  an  effort  to  register  all  partic¬ 
ipants  to  vote  and  a  lobbying  day  for  the  gay 
and  lesbian  civil  rights  bill  and  other  federal 
legislation,  in  addition  to  the  traditional  day 
for  activists  to  commit  civil  disobedience. 

Carter  stressed  that  the  real  work  organiz¬ 
ing  the  march  will  be  accomplished  at  the 
local  level,  and  that  the  march  is  on  target. 

“We’re  on,  we’re  for  real  and  we’re  moving 


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New  Jersey  gets 
gay/lesbian  rights 

TRENTON,  N.J. — New  Jersey  became 
the  fifth  state  in  the  country  to  offer  civil 
rights  protections  to  lesbians  and  gay  men  on 
Jan.  19. 

After  the  anti-discrimination  bill  passed 
the  state  Assembly  46-7  and  the  Senate  21-0 
on  the  final  day  of  legislative  session.  Gov. 
James  Florio  signed  the  measure. 

The  law  amends  the  state’s  civil  rights 
statute  by  adding  “affectional  or  sexual  ori¬ 
entation”  to  the  categories  of  people  the  state 
offers  protection  to,  including  race,  creed, 
color,  national  origin,  ancestry,  age,  marital 
status,  sex  and  handicap. 

Inclusion  in  the  law  allows  gay  men,  les¬ 
bians  and  bisexuals  who  are  discriminated 
against  in  employment,  housing,  public 
accommodations  and  public  contracts  the 
right  to  sue  or  file  a  complaint  with  the  stale 
Division  of  Civil  Rights. 

Connecticut  and  Hawaii  passed  similar 
measures  in  1991,  following  the  lead  of 
Massachusetts  and  Wisconsin. 

Florio  received  more  than  1700  calls  of 
opposition  to  the  bill  in  the  three  days  before 
he  signed  it,  according  to  AP,  but  Florio 
called  the  measure  “common  sense  princi¬ 
ples  of  fairness”  in  a  press  release.  “There  is 
no  room  in  our  stale,  or  our  society,  for  arbi¬ 
trary  discrimination  of  any  kind.” 

Religious  organizations  are  exempted 
from  carrying  out  the  law  in  the  area  of  hir¬ 
ing,  as  they  are  in  the  other  states  where  gay 
rights  laws  exist 

— Carrie  Wofford 

...  as  does  Israel 

TEL  AVTV — After  a  year  of  lobbying  and 
a  tremendous  upsurge  in  public  awareness  of 
the  issue,  Israel  adopted  a  gay  and  lesbian 
rights  law  late  last  year.  In  the  Knesset  vote 
Dec.  24,  only  5  lawmakers  voted  against 
adding  sexual  orientation  to  the  list  of  pro¬ 
tected  classes. 

Although  the  law,  which  took  effect  Jan. 
3,  marks  the  advent  of  the  first  gay  rights 
legislation  in  Israel,  it  follows  a  trend  of 
judicial  rulings  at  all  levels  in  favor  of  gay 
rights,  according  to  Rick  Scholl  of  the  World 
Congress  of  Gay  and  Lesbian  Jews  and  Am 
Tikva,  Boston’s  Jewish  lesbian  and  gay 
organization. 

“In  Israel,  the  gay  community  can  still 
look  to  the  courts  for  justice — judges  often 
rule  in  favor  of  gay  rights,”  Scholl  said. 
Israel  repealed  its  sodomy  statutes  in  1988. 

Hearings  last  year  on  the  gay  rights  law 
provided  the  first  opportunities  for  openly - 
gay  individuals  to  testify  before  the  Knesset, 
Scholl  said,  adding  that  lesbian  and  gay  visi¬ 
bility  as  a  whole  has  increased  in  Israel  due 
to  the  unusually  large  amount  of  publicity 
given  to  the  issue.  Anti-gay  and  lesbian  dis¬ 
crimination  in  the  military  is  now  the  major 
focus  of  the  gay  and  lesbian  rights  move¬ 
ment,  he  said. 

Israel  joins  France,  Denmark,  Norway  and 
Sweden  in  the  list  of  countries  with  national 
gay  and  lesbian  rights  legislation.  Some 
states  in  Australia,  Canada  and  the  U.S.  also 
have  such  laws,  and  the  Netherlands  pro¬ 
vides  some  gay  rights  protections. 

— Dawn  Schmitz 

Cracker  Barrel 
backs  down 

NEW  YORK— Cracker  Barrel  Old 
Country  Stores  has  dropped  its  lawsuit 
against  lesbian  and  gay  activists  whom  the 
company  had  restrained  from  protesting  at 
one  of  its  restaurants  in  Tennessee. 

The  restaurant  chain  had  used  the  lawsuit 
to  prevent  gay  and  lesbian  activists  who  own 
stock  in  the  company  from  attending  its 
annual  shareholders’  meeting  last  November 
in  Tennessee,  according  to  Lambda  Legal 
Defense  and  Education  Fund  who  is  repre¬ 
senting  the  activists.  The  company’s  volun¬ 
tary  dismissal  of  the  case  came  just  weeks 
before  a  court  hearing  at  which  the  company 
would  have  been  forced  to  defend  its  actions 
against  the  shareholders  and  activists. 

Protests  across  the  country  were  sparked 
by  Cracker  Barrel’s  decision  in  early  1991  to 
implement  a  policy  that  excludes  from 
employment  "individuals...  whose  sexual 
preferences  fail  to  demonstrate  normal  het¬ 
erosexual  values.” 

The  policy,  imposed  on  more  than  100 
Cracker  Barrel  restaurants  throughout  the 
Southeast  and  other  parts  of  the  country, 
resulted  in  the  arbitrary  firing  of  at  least  nine 
gay  and  lesbian  workers.  Queer  Nation 
activists  advocated  buying  stock  in  the  com¬ 
pany  in  order  to  reverse  its  policy  at  the 
annual  stockholders'  meeting. 

Cracker  Barrel  has  filed  other  actions 

2  •  FEBRUARY  23-MARCH 


against  gay  and  lesbian  activists  in 
Michigan,  Georgia  and  Indiana,  but  only  the 
suit  in  Tennessee  has  been  dropped  to  date. 

Lambda  is  preparing  to  file  a  separate  law¬ 
suit  against  Cracker  Barrel  to  prevent  the 
company  from  refusing  to  admit  activists 
who  own  stock  in  the  company  from  attend¬ 
ing  next  year’s  shareholders’  meeting. 

— Carrie  Wofford 

Dallas  judge  ends 
ban  on  gay  cops 

DALLAS — A  state  district  judge  over¬ 
turned  the  Dallas  Police  department’s  policy 
of  barring  gay  men  and  lesbians  from  being 
hired  as  police  officers  and  became  the  sec¬ 
ond  judge  to  strike  down  the  state  anti¬ 
sodomy  law,  the  New  York  Times  reported 
Feb.  5. 

Prior  to  the  ruling,  Dallas  was  the  only 
city  in  Texas  and  the  only  large  city  in  the 
naiton  that  bars  gay  and  lesbian  officers.  The 
Dallas  Police  Department  asks  recruits  about 
their  sexual  practices  while  they  undergo  lie- 
detector  tests. 

Mica  England,  a  lesbian,  brought  the  suit 
against  the  police  department  and  the  City 
Council  in  1989.  She  had  applied  to  the  force 
in  1987,  but  was  disqualified  when  she 
acknowledged  being  a  lesbian.  England  was 
presented  with  polygraph  results  that  regis¬ 
tered  her  as  lying  when  she  denied  having 
committed  “deviant”  sexual  acts.  Same-sex 
sex  is  considered  deviant  by  the  department 

The  ruling  by  Judge  Larry  Fuller  said  the 
Texas  anti-sodomy  law  violated  the  right  to 
privacy  guaranteed  in  the  state  constitution. 
The  112-year-old  anti-sodomy  law,  which 
was  ruled  unconstitutional  last  March  by  a 
state  district  judge  and  is  being  appealed  by 
the  attorney  general,  has  been  used  as  the 
basis  for  excluding  gay  men  and  lesbians 
from  the  police  force. 

Candidates  for  sherriff  in  Fort  Worth 
announced  their  opposition  to  hiring  gay  and 
lesbian  deputies  (see  GCN,  Vol.  19,  No.  28). 

But  last  month  the  current  Dallas  police 
chief.  Bill  Rathbum,  said  the  sexual  orienta¬ 
tion  of  officers  was  not  his  concern. 

The  Dallas  City  Council,  which  voted  at 
the  end  of  January  to  uphold  the  ban  on  gay 
and  lesbian  police,  has  not  decided  whether 
to  appeal  the  decision. 

“We  dragged  the  State  of  Texas  into  the 
’90s  screaming,  but  they’re  here,”  England 
told  the  Times,  adding,  “I  can’t  say  how 
much  harassment  I  will  be  able  to  take.” 

— Carrie  Wofford 

DC’s  high  court 
reprimands  judge 
for  homophobia 

WASHINGTON— The  District  of 
Columbia  Court  of  Appeals  found  that  a 
judge’s  behavior  and  ruling  demonstrated  an 
unacceptable  level  of  bias  toward  a  woman 
he  thought  to  be  a  lesbian,  and  reversed  the 
judge’s  decision  and  sent  the  case  for  a  new 
trial  before  an  impartial  judge. 

The  case  involved  allegations  of  child 
abuse  by  a  single  mother  and  her  three 
housemates,  with  one  of  whom  she  shared  a 
bed.  Judge  Michael  Rankin  assumed  the 
mother  was  having  a  lesbian  relationship 
with  her  roommate  and  denied  custody  to 
her,  saying  she  should  choose  between  her 
children  and  her  lifestyle. 

The  woman  maintains  that  she  is  not  a  les¬ 
bian  and  shares  the  bed  because  of  space 
limitations. 

The  Court  of  Appeals  called  Rankin’s 
questioning  about  their  lifestyle  "extensive 
and  increasingly  hostile,”  and  said  Rankin 
“pressed  aggressively”  into  their  private 
practices. 

The  lawyer  for  the  mother  believes  the 
Appeals  Court’s  decision  will  send  a  strong 
message  to  all  trial  judges  that  prejudice 
regarding  litigants'  lifestyles  will  not  be  tol¬ 
erated  in  the  courtroom. 

— Carrie  Wofford 

Australian  police 
win  money  for 
presence  of  HIV 

MELBOURNE,  Australia — About  20 
Victorian  police  officers  have  received  com¬ 
pensation  of  up  to  $20,000  for  pain  and  suf¬ 
fering  caused  by  fear  of  AIDS,  although 
none  tested  postivie  for  HTV,  according  to  a 
report  in  the  Melbourne  Sunday  Age. 
According  to  the  newspaper  report,  the 
awards,  ordered  by  the  Victorian  Crimes 
Compensation  Tribunal,  were  made  follow¬ 
ing  police  claims  that  they  had  been  jabbed 
by  syringes  or  bitten  during  struggles  with 
drug  users.  One  officer,  for  instance,  was 


awarded  six  weeks  off  work  and  $20,000 
compensation  after  allegedly  being  bitten. 

In  a  related  event  in  Sydney,  the  police 
service  has  promised  to  review  its  policy  on 
HTV/AIDS,  following  criticism  of  the  police 
practice  of  recording  details  of  HIV  status 
and  sexual  orientation  on  police  records, 
reported  in  the  Legal  Link  Newsletter.  A 
working  panel,  which  includes  a  representa¬ 
tive  from  the  government  AIDS  Council,  has 
prepared  a  draft  policy  on  HIV  and  infec¬ 
tious  diseases  to  be  circulated  to  AIDS  orga¬ 
nizations  for  comment. 

The  policy  should  also  go  some  way  to 
allaying  unreasonable  fears  of  HIV  infection, 
which  have  led  to  extensive  time  off  work 
and  large  compensation  payouts,  such  as  in 
Victoria. 

— Kendall  Lovett 

Gay  activist 
appointed  judge 

WEST  PALM  BEACH,  Fla.— Florida 
Governor  Lawton  Chiles  selected  gay 
activist  Rand  Hoch  to  serve  as  a  judge  of 
compensation  claims  in  Daytona  Beach,  the 
Palm  Beach  County  Human  Rights  Council 
announced  January  8. 

Hoch  has  served  on  the  boards  of  directors 
of  the  National  Gay  and  Lesbian  Task  Force, 
the  Gay  and  Lesbian  Democrats  of  America, 
and  the  Florida  Task  Force,  where  he  lob¬ 
bied  for  hate-crimes  laws.  He  also  co-found- 
ed  the  first  two  gay  and  lesbian  political 
organizations  for  Palm  Beach  County,  which 
drafted  city  ordinances  that  now  prohibit  dis¬ 
crimination  against  gay  men  and  lesbians  in 
housing,  financing  for  housing,  public  acco¬ 
modations  and  public  employment. 

Hoch  joins  only  a  handful  of  openly  gay 
or  lesbian  judges  in  the  country. 

— Carrie  Wofford 

Mass,  anonymous 
HIV  test  at  risk 

BOSTON — State-run  HIV  testing  sites 
will  no  longer  administer  only  anonymous 
testing,  since  the  Massachusetts  Department 
of  Public  Health  instituted  a  controversial 
new  policy  Jan.  1.  AIDS  activists  have  criti¬ 
cized  the  program  because  of  provisions 
requiring  participants  to  specifically  request 
anonymous  testing  and  allowing  testing  sites 
to  ask  for  donations  to  cover  counseling 
costs. 

Although  anonymous  testing  is  still  avail¬ 
able,  it  is  now  presented  as  one  of  two  choic¬ 
es.  Participants  are  asked  whether  they 
would  prefer  confidential — in  which  their 
name  will  be  kept  on  file  at  the  testing  site — 
or  anonymous  tests,  according  to  Jim 
McLaughlin  of  the  AIDS  Services  Bureau  of 
theDPH. 

However,  AIDS  activists  are  pushing  for 
tests  to  be  anonymous  unless  participants 
specifically  request  they  be  given  confiden¬ 
tial  tests.  “Even  the  hint  that  the  test  will  be 
confidential,  not  anonymous,  will  dissuade 
people  from  being  tested,”  said  Derrick 
Hodge  of  ACT  UP/Boston,  which  is  oppos¬ 
ing  the  DPH  plan  along  with  the  AIDS 
Action  Committee  of  Mass.  One  reason  a 
person  might  choose  a  confidential  test 
would  be  to  obtain  documentation  of  HIV 
status. 

Testing  should  be  presented  as  anony¬ 
mous,  Hodge  said,  because  although  the 
names  of  people  who  choose  confidential 
testing  are  not  currently  released  from  the 
testing  site,  future  legislation  could  possibly 
make  those  names  available  to  government 
agencies  or  insurance  companies. 

Confidential  testing  is  being  implemented 
in  response  to  community  needs,  according 
to  McLaughlin.  He  said  the  DPH  is  also 
responding  to  the  possibility  that  the  admin¬ 
istration  of  confidential,  not  anonymous, 
testing  will  be  required  in  order  for  the  agen¬ 
cy  to  quality  for  federal  funding.  Other  DPH 
representatives  have  indicated  to  activists  the 
possibility  that  future  money  meant  for  con¬ 
fidential  testing  could  be  steered  toward 
anonymous  testing. 

Asking  for  voluntary  contributions  to 
cover  the  costs  of  testing  can  also  “create  a 
barrier  to  people  being  tested,”  Hodge  said, 
because  if  people  expect  to  be  asked  for 
money,  they  may  not  choose  to  be  tested. 
McLaughlin  stressed  that  no  one  is  refused  a 
test  who  does  not  give  a  contribution,  and 
adolescents  are  never  asked  to  make  such  a 
contribution. 

Currently,  a  task  force  made  up  of  repre¬ 
sentatives  from  the  testing  sites  and  AIDS 
organizations  are  working  with  the  DPH  to 
amend  the  new  policy.  “The  DPH  has  shown 
a  real  willingness  to  listen  to  the  community, 
to  change  and  to  bold,”  Hodge  said. 

— Dawn  Schmitz 


.  1992  •  GAY  COMMUNITY  NEWS 


High  Court  limits 
phone  sex 

WASHINGTON— The  Supreme  Court 
upheld  a  federal  law  Jan.  27  that  requires  a 
phone  sex-blocking  device  on  all  phone  lines 
to  prevent  access  by  children,  the  Boston 
Globe  reported.  The  case  was  an  appeal  to 
that  law  by  four  companies  that  provide 
tape-recorded  pom  messages.  The  law  forces 
individuals  to  ask  their  phone  company,  in 
writing,  to  remove  the  device.  A  lawyer  rep¬ 
resenting  the  phone  sex  companies  said  the 
law  would  destroy  the  industry. 

In  the  past  year,  about  700  Massachusetts 
residents  have  asked  New  England 
Telephone  to  remove  blocking  devices  from 
their  phone  lines,  according  to  the  Globe. 

In  a  unanimous  decision  striking  down  a 
federal  ban  on  all  phone  sex  messages  in 
June  1989,  the  High  Court  ruled  that 
Congress  could  regulate,  but  not  outlaw, 
phone  sex.  Republican  Sen.  Jesse  Helms 
sponsored  the  current  law. 

— Carrie  Wofford 

For  the  Activist 
in  You 

National 

•  International  War  Crimes  Tribunal  in 
New  York  City,  Feb.  29.  Info:  (212)  254- 
5385.  Round  trip  reservations  from  Boston: 
(617)424-1176. 

•  Boycott  Miller  Beer  and  Miller’s  sub¬ 
sidiaries:  Miller  Genuine  Draft,  Miller  High 
Life,  Meister  Brau,  Lowenbrau, 
Milwaukee’s  Best,  Sharps.  Boycott  called  by 
Teamsters  Union  Local  122,  representing  the 
drivers,  mechanics,  warehouse  employees 
and  salesmen  at  the  Mass,  area  Miller  dis¬ 
tributor.  The  company  wants  to  cut  safrty 
measures,  fire  injured  workers  after  one  ye<u 
and  cut  medical  and  retirement  benefits  for 
injured  workers  in  the  first  year.  The  compa¬ 
ny  has  hired  one  of  the  country’s  oldest 
union-busting  consultants  to  force  workers 
on  strike  and  then  replace  them.  (ACT  UP 
staged  a  boycott  against  Miller  to  protest 
N.C.  Sen.  Jesse  Helms  and  the  support  he 
receives  from  Miller’s  parent  company, 
Philip  Morris  Co.)  Info:  John  Murphy, 
Teamsters  Local  122,  (617)  247-0251. 

•  Phone  zap  and  boycott  Mazda:  (800) 
345-3799  for  their  new  car,  the  “Navajo,” 
and  their  ad:  “No  one  knows  the  land  like  a 
Navajo.”  Tell  Mazda  a  person  is  not  a  car; 
using  Native  American  names  or  images  as 
tokens  exploits  Native  Americans.  Also 
phone  zap  local  Mazda  dealers  and  other 
businesses  that  use  Native  American  names 
but  are  not  Native  American  businesses. 
Info:  Practicing  Anti-Racism  newsletter,  HC 
73,  Box  169  C,  Drury,  MO  65638-9724. 

•  Phone  zap  the  “Partnership  for  an  AIDS- 
Free  America”  for  distributing  HIV  negative 
identification  cards.  Call  (800)  HIV-NEGT 
send  a  message  to  Mr.  Jannsen. 

•  Send  your  presentation  proposals  for  the 
14th  National  Lesbian  and  Gay  Health 
Conference  and  10th  Annual  AIDS/HIV 
Forum,  “Making  Health  Care  Human:  The 
Impact  of  Age,  Gender  and  Race”  (July  8- 
12,  Los  Angeles).  Info:  Daniel  Reichard, 
(202)  994-4285. 

•  Protest  the  police  raid  of  two  gay  bars  in 
Tijuana,  Mexico.  Write  Presidente 
Municipal,  Palacio  Municipal,  Zona  del  Rio, 
Tijuana,  B.C.,  Mexico;  and  Gobemador  del 
Estado,  Centro  Civico,  Mexicali,  B.C., 
Mexico.  Info:  FIGHT,  Apartado  Postal  3302, 
tijuana,  B.C.,  Mexico  22000. 

New  England 

•  Protest  Gov.  Weld’s  proposed  new  regu¬ 
lations  for  a  workfare  program  to  replace 
welfare  in  Mass.,  called  “MassJOBS.”  It 
would  force  the  following  people  into 
mandatory  job  search  requirements  (but  deny 
access  to  all  others):  women  with  children  16 
years  or  older  (3000  women),  women  who 
received  benefits  in  36  of  the  previous  60 
months  (44,000),  parents  under  24  who  lack 
a  H.S.  diploma  or  GED,  or  who  lack  recent 
jobs  (15,000  women),  and  two-parent  fami¬ 
lies  (2000  to  3000  families),  TTiese  people 
would  be  denied  opportunity  for  further  edu¬ 
cation  or  job  training  and  forced  to  find  work 
paying  $6/hour  with  health  insurance  or 
$7/hour  without.  Weld  is  also  considering 
banning  outright  their  right  to  four-year  col¬ 
lege  or  training  programs. 

Write/call  Health  and  Human  Services 
Secy.  David  Forsberg:  (617)  727-7600,  1 
Ashburton  PL,  Boston,  MA  02108;  and  Gov. 
Weld:  (617)  727-3600.  State  House,  Boston. 
MA  02133.  Urge  them  to  serve  all  volun¬ 
teers  first  and  drop  the  mandatory  job. 

Got  activist  news?  Phone  (617)  426-4469; 
fax  (617)  426-2723.  —Carrie  Wofford 


HIV-positive  blood 
ruled  not  a  weapon 

Judge  drops  attempted  murder  charges  for  a  PWA  said  to  have 
spit  blood  at  cops,  but  gives  jail  time  for  psychological  assault 

Dec.  23. 


Anti-gay  shooting  in  Hub 

BOSTON — Over  400  activists  marched  near  the  site  of  an  anti-gay 
shooting  to  protest  anti-gay  and  anti-lesbian  violence. 

The  shooting  that  sparked  the  rally  occurred  Jan.  25  outside  a  gym 
on  Huntington  Ave.  near  Symphony  Hall  where  a  gay  man,  Martin 
Lewis,  stood  with  two  of  his  friends. 

Three  days  before  the  shooting  the  gunman,  identified  by  police  as 
Robert  Christopher  Ingraham,  allegedly  asked  at  the  gym  if  Lewis, 
a  28-year-old  fitness  instructor,  and  a  male  friend  were  lovers.  The 
woman  he  asked,  a  friend  of  Lewis,  responded  that  the  men  were 
not  sexually  involved.  Then  on  Jan.  25,  at  the  entrance  to  the  gym, 
Ingraham  called  them  “faggots,”  and  Lewis’  friend,  who  is  straight, 
tackled  Ingraham  to  the  ground  and  “held  him  until  he  said  he  took 
it  back  and  that  he  would  never  call  us  faggots  again,”  Lewis  told 
the  Boston  Globe. 

Ingraham  reportedly  returned  a  few  minutes  later  and  shot  them, 
hitting  Lewis  in  the  left  leg  and  Pappas  in  the  shoulder.  Lewis’ 
female  friend  suffered  a  punctured  lung  and  cracked  ribs  from 
being  shot  in  the  upper  back. 

Ingraham  has  four  aliases  and  had  been  released  from  federal 
prison  in  1 990  for  sending  threatening  notes  to  two  federal  judges 
in  1986,  the  Globe  reported. 

Activists  are  calling  for  police  to  charge  Ingraham  with  civil  rights 
violations  under  the  hate  crimes  law,  as  well  as  with  criminal 
assault. 

Two  members  of  Queer  Nation  suggested  at  the  rally  that  queers 
need  to  arm  themselves  to  attack  anti-gay  bashers  before  bashers 
attack  queers,  a  suggestion  that  drew  several  hecklers  from  the 
crowd. 

Hate-motivated  violence  against  lesbians,  bisexuals  and  gay  men 
increased  29  percent  in  Massachusetts  last  year,  according  to  the 
Fenway  Community  Health  Center’s  Victim  Recovery  Project. 
Three  hundred,  thirteen  people  and  organizations  were  the  victims 
of  208  incidents.  — Carrie  Wofford 

Magic  Johnson 
criticized  in  first 
AIDS  meetings 


By  Dawn  Schmitz 

CINCINNATI — A  person  with  AIDS 
(PWA)  who  says  he  was  assaulted  by  police 
was  himself  found  guilty  of  misdemeanor 
assault  and  sentenced  Feb.  18  to  20  days  in 
jail  in  a  case  that  AIDS  activists  have 
watched  closely.  The  man,  Steven  O’Banion, 
had  originally  been  charged  with  four  counts 
of  attempted  murder  for  allegedly  spitting  his 
own  blood  at  police  while  in  a  jail  cell 

O’Banion  asserted  he  was  assaulted  by 
officers  in  his  jail  cell  after  being  arrested  for 
jaywalking  and  disorderly  conduct — an 
arrest  he  and  a  citizen  review  board  believe 
was  motivated  by  homophobia.  Police 
charged  that  he  deliberately  tried  to  expose 
them  to  HIV-positive  blood  by  spitting  it  at 
than  after  sustaining  facial  injuries  brought 
on  when  he  resisted  a  physical  examination. 

O’Banion  denies  attempting  to  expose 
anyone  to  HIV.  “It’s  obvious  I’m  the  one 
who  was  assaulted,”  he  told  GCN.  "For  me  it 
isn’t  over  yet.  It’s  been  a  five-month  night¬ 
mare  that  just  keeps  going.” 

He  was  sentenced  to  40  days  in  jail  and 
ordered  to  serve  20  days.  Cathy  Cook,  one  of 
his  attomeyss,  said  she  had  not  expected 
O’Banion  to  receive  jail  time  and  would 
appeal.  His  sentence  also  included  an 
unspecified  number  of  hours  of  community 
service  at  an  AIDS  service  organization, 
which  Cook  said  they  had  requested  as  part 
of  the  sentence. 

HIV-positive  blood  not  a  weapon 

The  fact  that  the  judge  found  that  the  pres¬ 
ence  Of  HIV-positive  blood  could  not  be  con¬ 
sidered  use  of  a  deadly  weapon  signals  a  par¬ 
tial  victory  for  those  fighting  AIDS  hysteria, 
according  to  many  familiar  with  the  case. 
However,  to  some  the  fact  that  O’Banion  was 
not  acquitted  entirely  is  a  clear  example  of 
prevalent  judicial  prejudice  against  PWAs. 

The  ruling  comes  in  the  wake  of  findings 
of  a  national  study  showing  that  courts  tend 
to  be  more  influenced  by  hysteria  than  sound 
medical  evidence  when  dealing  with  cases 
involving  PWAs.  The  study  showed  that 
comparatively  stiff  penalties  are  meted  out  to 
PWAs  who,  like  O’Banion,  are  charged  with 
biting  or  spitting,  despite  the  minimal  medi¬ 
cal  risk  of  such  actions. 

“[The  ruling]  is  a  victory,  in  a  way,  but  we 
believe  he  should  have  been  acquitted  entire¬ 
ly,”  said  Scott  MacLarty  of  the  Cincinnati 
Gay  and  Lesbian  March  Activists  (GLMA) 
after  the  verdict  was  announced.  “I  suspect 
the  judge  announced  that  verdict  in  order  to 
make  a  civil  suit  against  the  county  difficult” 
because  O’Banion’s  conviction  would  make 
it  harder  to  prove  the  police  were  at  fault  in 
their  treatment  of  him.  GLMA,  along  with 
ACT  UP/Cincinatti  and  other  groups, 
protested  O’Banion’s  mistreatment  and 
helped  to  publicize  the  trial,  which  ended 


By  John  Zoh 

WASHINGTON,  D.C.  —  Tensions 
between  the  gay  community  and  District 
police  have  intensified  after  sex-related 
arrests  of  14  men  at  two  gay  movie  and  bur¬ 
lesque  clubs  here. 

Outraged  activists  denounced  police 
enforcement  of  D.C.’s  sodomy  law,  noting 
that  legislation  to  repeal  the  antiquated 
statute  is  locked  up  in  a  city  council  commit¬ 
tee. 

“They  have  used  this  law  clearly  to  harass 
and  intimidate  a  portion  of  the  community 
and  tell  them  they  should  not  go  to  this 
place,”  said  Greg  Scott  of  Queer  Nation. 

Some  fear  that  an  anti-gay,  homophobic 
conspiracy  may  have  influenced  the  decision 
by  police  to  raid  the  Follies  Theater  and 
allegedely  pose  as  fire  inspectors  to  check 
the  GH  Gub  downstairs — once  known  as  the 
Glory  Hole  where  two  men  were  busted  for 
oral  sodomy. 

The  raids  took  place  Sunday  night,  Feb.  8, 
and  resulted  in  11  men  arrested  for  sodomy, 
two  nude  dancers  arrested  for  indecent  expo¬ 
sure  and  a  bar  owner  arrested  for  operating  a 
bawdy  house. 

On  Feb.  11,  the  United  States  Attorney’s 
office,  which  has  authority  to  prosecute 
felonies  in  this  non-state,  reduced  the  charges 
of  sodomy — a  felony — to  attempted  sodomy, 
a  misdemeanor.  The  Washington  Times  print¬ 
ed  the  names  of  the  arrested  men. 


Judge  misread  law 

O’Banion  had  originally  been  charged 
with  four  counts  of  felony  assault  and  four 
counts  of  attempted  murder,  but  Judge 
Gilbert  Bettman  threw  out  the  attempted 
murder  charges  on  the  second  day  of  the  trial 
and  later  reduced  the  felonious  assault 
charges  to  misdemeanor  assault. 

Although  it  is  unclear  why  Bettman  did 
not  dismiss  all  the  charges,  Cathy  Adams, 
one  of  O’Banion’s  attorneys  and  others  who 
were  in  the  courtroom,  said  that  Bettman 
misread  the  misdemeanor  assault  statute. 

According  to  Adams,  Bettman  replaced 
the  word  “physiological”  with  the  word 
“psychological”  in  a  phrase  describing  the 
kind  of  harm  inflicted  through  misdemeanor 
assault,  implying  that  O’Banion’s  alleged 
spitting  constituted  psychological  harm  upon 
the  corrections  officers,  even  though  it  did 
not  threaten  to  expose  them  to  HTV. 

O’Banion’s  lawya  questioned  the  validity 
of  the  ruling  because  of  her  perception  that 
the  judge  misread  the  law. 

Possible  trend  set 

Despite  the  conviction,  Adams  told  GCN 
she  felt  the  outcome  of  the  trial  "is  a  big  vic¬ 
tory”  because  Bettman,  after  hearing  medical 
evidoice,  found  that  blood  could  not  be  con¬ 
sidered  a  deadly  weapon.  Although  the  ruling 
cannot  be  used  as  a  precedent  for  other  cases, 
Adams  said,  it  is  likely  to  influence  similar 
cases  around  the  country. 

In  Chicago,  a  similar  case  was  dismissed 
Feb.  3.  AIDS  activist  Gary  Lawman  was 
charged  with  aggravated  assault  for  allegedly 
attempting  to  bite  a  police  officer  who  was 
arresting  him  during  an  ACT  UP  demonstra¬ 
tion  on  June  24  of  last  year.  According  to  his 
attorney,  Stacey  Beckman,  the  police  officer 
who  made  the  charges  did  not  show  up  at  the 
trial.  Videotaped  footage  showing  Lawman’s 
brutal  arrest  would  have  been  considered 
important  evidence  if  the  case  had  gone  to 
trid. 

O’Banion’s  arrest 

O’Banion  was  arrested  and  charged  with 
jaywalking,  disorderly  conduct  and  resisting 
arrest  Sept.  3.  Both  O’Banion  and  a  citizen 
review  board  assert  the  police  stopped  him 
and  his  friend,  David  Johnson,  for  jaywalk¬ 
ing  in  an  attempt  to  harass  them,  suspecting 
they  were  gay  because  the  neighborhood 
they  were  in  contained  several  gay  bars.  He 
said  one  officer,  Mark  Yontz,  pulled  up  in  a 
squad  car  and  said  to  officer  Charles  Prem, 
who  was  questioning  the  two  men,  “I  see  you 
got  a  couple  of  faggots  there.” 

O’Banion  told  GCN  his  response  to  Yontz, 
“Cowabunga,”  prompted  Yontz  to  step  out  of 
his  car,  at  which  point  a  scuffle  ensued 
Continued  on  page  8 


Activists  charged  police  officials  with 
hypocrisy  for  delaying  implementation  of  the 
Bias-Related  Crime  Act,  passed  almost  two 
years  ago,  which  police  have  not  implement¬ 
ed  because  they  claim  to  be  designing  the 
report  form.  “TTte  rank  and  file  still  don’t 
know  about  [the  Bias-Related  Crime  Act],” 
Tracy  Conaty,  co-chair  of  Gay  men  and 
Lesbians  Opposing  Violence  (GLOV), 
charged. 

The  city  “has  slashed  the  AIDS  education 
budget  and  says  we  don’t  have  enough 
money,  but  apparently  we  have  funds  to 
arrest  people  inside  a  gay  club,”  said  Robin 
Kane,  a  lesbian  activist  with  the  direct  action 
group,  Oppression  Undo-  Target!  (OUT!). 

The  National  Gay  and  Lesbian  Task  Force 
denounced  D.C.’s  law  for  barring  oral  and 
anal  heterosexual  or  homosexual  contact 
“even  between  consenting  adults”  at  home. 
The  laws  “are  routinely  used  to  harass  and 
intimidate  gay  and  lesbian  people,"  noted 
Kane,  also  a  policy  assistant  at  the  national 
Task  Force. 

The  raids  “will  only  exacerbate  tensions 
between  police  and  the  gay  community,  and 
will  create  an  atmosphere  of  mistrust  and 
hostility,”  Kane  charged. 

Police  claim  the  raids  were  warranted  by 
citizen  complaints,  including  calls  from  at 
least  one  gay  man  about  unsafe  sex  at  the 
Continued  on  page  8 


By  Adrl*n  Saks 

WASHINGTON — HIV-positive  former 
basketball  star  Magic  Johnson  faced  criti¬ 
cism  during  his  first  day  as  the  newest 
member  of  the  National  Commission  on 
AIDS  Jan.  14.  His  lack  of  knowledge  and 
economic  wealth  were  berated  by  two  lead¬ 
ing  PWA  representatives,  while  a  fellow 
member  of  the  commission  criticized 
Johnson’s  public  service  announcement  ads 
for  AIDS. 

Johnson  replaced  Belinda  Mason  as  the 
only  person  with  HIV  on  the  commission. 
The  outspoken  and  politically  liberal  Mason 
died  in  September. 

Derek  Hodel,  executive  director  of  the 
People  with  AIDS  Health  Group  in  New 
York,  confronted  Johnson  during  his  first 
commission  hearing,  calling  on  Johnson  to 
“embrace  us  all — gay,  straight,  women, 
men,  children — and  have  the  courage  to 
speak  with  humanity  for  us  all.” 

"I  don’t  see  how  a  millionaire  can  repre¬ 
sent  people  with  AIDS,”  Bree  Scott 
Hartland  of  the  Living  Well  Commission,  a 
New  York-based  PWA  organization,  said. 
The  Living  Well  Commission  announced 
their  opposition  to  Johnson’s  appointment 
soon  after  Bush  announced  it  because  of 
Johnson’s  economic  wealth.  “The  greater 
majority  [of]  people  with  AIDS/HTV  find  it 
more  than  difficult  to  meet  the  challenges.... 
They  have  little  or  no  money  to  research 
their  options,  no  insurance  coverage  that 
would  give  them  the  best  available  medical 
treatment,  and  few  have  the  support  systans 
in  place  like  [there]  are  for  Magic  Johnson,” 
the  group  said  in  a  press  release. 

Hartland  expressed  dismay  that  the  com¬ 
mission  should  elect  someone  so  unin¬ 
formed  on  AIDS/HIV  issus.  He  believes 
that  Johnson’s  addition  to  the  commission 
was  an  attempt  to  gamer  publicity  and  pro¬ 
mulgate  the  message  of  prevention. 

Johnson  admits  his  need  to  leant  more, 


saying  that  he  is  doing  his  best,  a  claim  to 
which  Hartland  responds,  “We  don’t  have 
that  kind  of  time.” 

“Magic’s  Athletes  Against  AIDS"  public- 
service  anouncements  have  also  come  under 
fire.  Larry  Kessler,  executive  director  of  the 
AIDS  ACTION  Committee  of 
Massachusetts  and  a  fellow  member  of  the 
National  Commission  on  AIDS,  called  the 
Converse-sponsored  advertisements  a  waste 
of  money  during  a  commission  press  con¬ 
ference. 

Kessler  dismissed  the  ads  as  useless 
because  they  do  not  give  information  about 
how  to  prevent  transmission  of  the  HIV 
virus.  In  the  ads,  various  basketball  celebri¬ 
ties  say  that  if  Magic  Johnson  can  get 
AIDS,  anyone  can.  The  only  information 
provided  by  the  ads  is  the  number  for  the 
AIDS  information  hotline  at  the  Centers  for 
Disease  Control.  “Everyone  knows  AIDS  is 
a  problem.  We  need  to  know  how  to  prevent 
it,”  Kessler  commented. 

Kessler  also  expressed  offense  at  the  dia¬ 
logue  in  some  of  the  ads.  In  one  of  the 
spots,  an  athlete  suggests  that  AIDS  is  no 
longer  a  joke.  Said  Kessla,  “It  was  never  a 
damn  joke.” 

Others  testifying  at  Johnson’s  first  hear¬ 
ing  bemoaned  the  inadequacies  and  political 
content  of  current  preventive  measures. 
Speaking  of  AIDS’  disproportionate  impact 
on  the  poor,  Washington,  D.C.  PWA  Janice 
Jireau  stated,  “We  don’t  need  another  hear¬ 
ing.  We  need  to  sit  down  and  start  to  do 
some  work.  We  need  a  national  agenda.” 

Johnson  met  with  President  Bush  for  25 
minutes  after  the  hearing.  Johnson  lata  said 
that  Bush  “needs  to  do  a  lot,”  but  he  avoid¬ 
ed  directly  criticizing  the  President.  Bush 
said  that  Johnson  “had  some  good,  con¬ 
structive  suggestions.”  Neither  gave  details 
of  their  conversation,  but  a  follow-up  meet¬ 
ing  is  planned  in  a  month. 

—filed from  Boston 


GAY  COMMUNITY  NEWS  •  FEBRUARY  23-MARCH  7,  1992  •  3 


Police  raid  D.C.  bars, 
claim  unsafe  sex 

Activists  charge  city  with  stalling  on  sodomy  repeal  and 
implementation  of  anti-bias  bill 


Michael  Galvin 


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GCN  wii  be  holding  Board  elections  in  March, 
with  seven  places  available.  The  GCN  Board  is 
involved  in  setting  policy,  financial  management, 
organizational  development  and  fundraising  for 
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lisher  of  Gay  Community  News.  An  effort  is  made 
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All  interested  persons  are  encouraged  to  submit  a 
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Seven  Sisters  sex 

Dear  GCN: 

I  feel  compelled  to  respond  to  the  “Seven 
Sisters  in  Oklahoma"  who  believe  that  “pure” 
lesbian  sex  will  not  transmit  the  HTV  virus.  I 
am  the  HIV  Project  Manager  at  Neponset 
Health  Center  in  Boston,  and  have  encoun¬ 
tered  numerous  individuals  who  believed  they 
had  no  risk  factor,  yet  found  themselves  HIV 
positive  because  they  had,  indeed,  participat¬ 
ed  in  risky  behavior. 

The  only  sexual  activity  that  is  absolutely 
safe  is  masturbation.  These  women  are  delud¬ 
ing  themselves  if  they  think  somehow  les¬ 
bians  are  a  class  of  people  exempt  from  HIV. 

Here  are  the  facts  for  women  who  practice 
“pure”  lesbian  sex.  HIV  is  found  in  transmiss- 
able  amounts  in  vaginal  secretions.  This 
means  going  down  on  a  woman  without  using 
a  barrier  is  risky  behavior.  It  means  penetra¬ 
tion,  even  with  one  finger,  is  a  risky  behavior 
if  you  have  any  cuts  on  your  finger.  Your  risk 
increases  in  the  presence  of  blood,  and  the 
idea  of  going  down  on  a  woman  when  she  is 
bleeding  may  be  repulsive.  However,  most 
lesbians  would  not  be  grossed  out  by  going 
down  on  their  lover  on  the  sixth  day  of  her 
period  when  she's  not  bleeding  but  still  find¬ 
ing  some  pink  spotting  on  her  underpants. 

Sisters,  you  are  treading  dangerous  waters 
if  you  believe  that  sex  with  men  or  sharing 
needles  are  the  only  behaviors  that  put  you  at 
risk  for  HIV  infection.  Lesbians  should  not 
give  themselves  permission  to  be  lulled  into 
complacency  by  somehow  believing  that  a 
virus  knows  your  sexual  preference  and  your 
sexual  practices. 

Sincerely, 
Jo  Schneiderman 
Roslindale,  Mass. 

Dear  GCN: 

What  I  read  the  response  (“Pure  Lesbian 
Sex”)  to  Monica  Pearl's  letter  from  the  “sis¬ 
ters  in  Oklahoma."  my  first  reaction  was  to 
wonder  if  this  was  a  dyke  twist  cm  the  famous 
Yalie  letters  Ann  Landers  gets.  But  in 
Bushwacked  America,  perhaps  I  should  have 
known  better. 

These  women,  and  others,  really  think  they 
are  morally  superior  and  immune  to  those 
dirty  people  who  “transmit  AIDS”  (sic). 
Lesbian  sex  includes  everything  two  women 
(or  more)  can  possibly  do  together  from  sex 
toys,  SM  (whatever  one's  definition  of  that 
might  be  and  the  sisters  don't  share  that  with 


us),  fisting,  bondage,  anal  sex  and  oral  sex 
under  all  kinds  of  circumstances  (and  periods 
are  not  the  only  time  white  blood  cells  are 
sloughed  from  women’s  vaginas).  Yes, 
Oklahoma,  women  even  engage  in  casual, 
nasty  sex.  I  sincerely  doubt  that  is  confined 
to  urban  areas. 

But  then  who  are  these  sisters — or  anyone 
else — to  decide  what  is  and  is  not  “moral,” 
“clean"  and  “perverse”  lesbian  sex?  The 
CDC  has  decided  that  “lesbian  sex”  (unde¬ 
fined  yet  again)  is  not  really  sex — in  1987  so 
said  the  Assistant  Director  of  the  CDC’s 
applicable  department — and  thus  we  just 
don’t  count  within  AIDS  statistics.  Maybe 
the  sisters  think  HIV  doesn’t  exist  in 
Oklahoma  or  in  the  “lesbian  community?”  In 
all  it’s  diversity.  But,  if  so,  they  are  wrong, 
tragically  dead  wrong.  All  kinds  of  people 
shoot  drugs  and  share  needles  and  “bodily 
fluids”  (and  have  turkey  b  as  ter  babies  to  pro¬ 
duce  children,  at  least  in  many  parts  of 
Amerika).  Lesbians  are  no  “purer”  than  other 
people. 

Finally,  I  don’t  know  how  long  y’all  have 
been  reading  GCN,  but  this  kind  of  moraliz¬ 
ing  in  service  of  denial  is  just  the  sort  of 
oppression  many  writers  published  within  its 
pages — women  and  mot,  lesbians,  gay  men, 
bisexuals  and  assorted  queers — are  fighting 
around  AIDS  and  other  salient  issues.  I’d 
direct  your  attention  to  some  of  the  most 
recent,  including  articles  on  HIV  testing  and 
misinformation  in  the  lesbian  community 
and  coverage  of  both  the  National  and 
Boston  Women  &  AIDS  conferences  in  par¬ 
ticular.  Monica  Pearl  and  her  tireless  col¬ 
leagues  at  ACT  UP/NY  and  the  ACT  UP 
Women  &  AIDS  Book  Group  continue  to 
deal  with  the  ignorance  and  hate-mongering 
attitudes  like  those  contained  within  “Pure...” 
engender.  Sadly,  letters  like  that  only  illus¬ 
trate  how  far  we  lesbians  fighting  AIDS, 
denial  and  internalized  homophobia  and  sex- 
phobia  have  to  go  within  “our  own  commu¬ 
nity.” 

AIDS  is  not  a  moral  issue.  It  is  about  life 
and  death — including  women’s  lives,  all 
kinds  of  women  who  do  all  kinds  of  things  in 
and  out  of  bed. 

In  sisterhood, 
Marea  Murray 
Boston,  Mass. 

Revulsion  form  of 
bigotry 

Dear  GCN: 

I  am  responding  to  the  letter  by  Steven 
Capra  in  the  Dec.  22-Jan.4  1991  GCN  (Vol. 
19,  No.  23). 

He  asks,  “How  many  gay  people  are 
repulsed  by  NAMBLA,  and  repelled  from 
the  community?”  Then  goes  on  to  say,  “After 
all.we’re  talking  about  a  group  that  die  over¬ 
whelming  bulk  of  us  find  morally  repug¬ 
nant.” 

It  seems  to  me  that  straight  bigots  use  this 
same  reasoning  against  gays.  Just  because 
straights  are  repulsed  and  repelled  by  gays, 
and  that  the  overwhelming  bulk  of  straights 
find  gays  morally  repugnant  does  not  give 
them  the  right  to  put  us  down,  and  do  all  of 
the  other  things  that  straights  do  to,  and 
against  gays. 

The  same  thing  goes  in  Mr.  Capra’s  case. 
Wanting  to  throw  NAMBLA  out  of  gay 
pride  parades  is  just  as  bigoted  as  the  things 
that  straights  do  against  gays  just  because  we 
are  gay. 

Neal 
Salem,  Ore. 

Outrage  at 
Burroughs  Wellcome 

/GCN  received  a  copy  of  this  letter  sent 
to  the  C.E.O.  and  President  of  Burroughs 
Welcome.] 

Dear  Mr.  Tracey: 

I  am  writing  to  express  my  outrage  at  the 
behavior  exhibited  by  Mr.  Ron  Shulteis,  a 
member  of  your  sales  staff  who  represented 
Burroughs  Wellcome  at  the  American  Public 
Health  Association  Annual  meeting  in 
November  of  1991. 

I  am  the  coordinator  of  the  Brown 
University  AIDS  Program.  I  was  in  the  exhi¬ 
bition  section  talking  with  two  representa¬ 
tives  from  AIDS  Treatment  News,  a  small 
publication  which  reports  on  experimental 
and  standard  treatments  for  HIV  disease, 
about  subscribing  to  their  publication.  Mr. 
Shulteis,  who,  incidentally,  was  playing  with 
a  yo-yo  throughout  the  entire  incident, 
walked  up  to  the  ATN  booth  and  engaged 
Keith  Griffith,  one  of  the  ATN  representa¬ 
tives,  in  conversation.  I  overheard  that  they 
were  arguing  about  the  issue  of  profit.  Mr. 
Griffith  stated  his  concern  over  the  cost  of 
drugs  for  AIDS  produced  by  Burroughs 
Wellcome.  Mr.  Shulteis  became  very  defen¬ 


sive,  and  vehemently  defended  Burroughs 
Wellcome’s  need  to  set  the  prices  of  drugs  as 
they  are. 

I  have  no  objection  to  this  at  all.  Mr. 
Shulteis  is  a  paid  employee  of  the  company. 
It  is  his  job  to  support  its  policies.  What 
upset  me  tremendously,  however,  is  the  man¬ 
ner  in  which  he  chose  to  do  so.  Specifically, 
three  things  occurred  which  I  found  unac¬ 
ceptable. 

1.  Mr.  Shulteis  did  not  appear  willing  or 
able  to  engage  in  a  dialogue  about  the  issues 
at  hand.  He  raised  his  voice  and  interrupted 
Mr.  Griffith  repeatedly,  all  the  while  continu¬ 
ing  to  play  with  his  yo-yo.  He  was  aggres¬ 
sive  and  angry. 

2.  Later  in  the  conversation,  Mr.  Shulteis 
changed  his  tactics.  Instead  of  just  yelling  at 
Mr.  Griffith,  he  demanded  that  AIDS 
Treatment  News,  a  small  organization  which 
relies  solely  on  subscriptions  to  support  its 
operating  costs,  make  free  copies  of  its  pub¬ 
lication  available  to  all  Burroughs  Wellcome 
representatives.  When  Mr.  Griffith  indicated 
that  it  would  not  be  possible  for  ATN  to  do 
so,  and  suggested  that  Burroughs  Wellcome 
could  easily  afford  the  $230  annual  subscrip¬ 
tion  rate,  Mr.  Shulteis  accused  ATN.  of 
“profiting  from  the  pain  and  suffering  of  oth¬ 
ers  just  as  bad  as  [Burroughs]  does." 

3.  Mr.  Shulteis,  who  by  the  end  of  the  con¬ 
versation  was  shouting  loudly  enough  to 
draw  the  attention  of  several  others  in  the 
vicinity,  then  said  the  following  to  Mr. 
Griffith,  who  is  HIV  positive:  “Your  [CD4] 
count  may  be  high  now,  but  one  of  these 
days  it’s  going  to  drop,  and  you’re  going  to 
need  our  drugs.  Then  we’ll  see  what  you 
have  to  say  about  Burroughs  Wellcome.” 
With  that,  Mr.  Shulteis  stormed  off. 

In  just  a  few  short  moments,  Mr.  Shulteis 
masterfully  and  perhaps  permanently  validat¬ 
ed  and  reinforced  for  those  listening,  criti¬ 
cisms  which  Burroughs  Wellcome  has 
encountered  repeatedly  from  HIV-infected 
people  and  their  advocates.  As  evidenced  by 
the  “face”  it  chose  to  present  to  the  public, 
the  message  was  once  again  sent  that 
Burroughs  Wellcome  continues  to  exploit  the 
community  which  it  claims  to  serve. 

The  incident  was  discussed  among  confer¬ 
ence  attendees  throughout  the  remainder  of 
the  week.  These  individuals — public  health 
professionals  from  around  the 
country — returned  to  their  communities  with 
a  reinforced  impression  that  Burroughs 
Wellcome  does  not  come  from  a  position  of 
compassion  toward  people  affected  by  HIV 
disease.  Rather,  it  appears  to  be  focused  only 
on  retaining  its  profit  margin. 

The  damage  Mr.  Shulteis  did  is  irrepara¬ 
ble.  A  written  apology  to  Mr.  Griffith  and  a 
donation  to  AIDS  Treatment  News  would 
certainly  be  in  order.  In  addition,  perhaps 
you  will  take  steps  to  see  that  this  type  of 
incident  does  not  happen  again.  Failure  to  do 
so  will  send  a  clear  message  to  the  public 
that  Burroughs  Wellcome  Co.  does  in  fact 
endorse  Mr.  Shulteis’  views. 

Sincerely, 
Ellen  LaPointe 
Pawtucket,  R.I. 


CORRECTION 

In  the  interview  with  Hothead  Poison  cre¬ 
ator,  Diane  DiMassa  (Jan.  26-Feb.l),  phtog- 
rapher  Jodi  Wheat  was  incorrectly  identified 
as  the  distributor  for  Giant  Ass  Publishing, 
when,  in  fact,  she  is  not.  Start  up  costs  for 
the  first  issue  of  Hothead  Poison  were  quot¬ 
ed  as  being  in  the  S5-6.000  range,  what,  in 
actuality,  it  cost  about  $5-600  to  get 
Hothead  off  the  ground.  Hothead’s  cat. 
Chicken,  was  correctly  identified  as 
“  Chicken"  throughout  the  article. 


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FEBRUARY  23-MARCH  7,  1992  •  5 


Paul  Everett 

BOSTON — Bom  in  Philadelphia,  Paul 
Everett  passed  away  Jan.  17  of  a  sudden 
heart  attack.  He  was  employed  with  the 
Jupiter  (formerly  Burt  Reynolds’)  Theater 
appearing  in  their  production  of  Showboat  in 
Florida. 

During  his  17  years  in  Boston,  his  passion 
for  the  stage  was  well  known.  Paul  was 
instrumental  in  securing  the  gay  and  lesbian 
Triangle  Theater’s  present  space  and 
appeared  in  several  of  their  productions 
including  Boys  in  the  Band,  Franny:  The 
Queen  of  Provincetown  and  A  Night  Out 
with  the  Boys.  He  appeared  in  the  lesbian 
soap  opera  Two-in-Twenty,  in  various  roles 
in  murder  mysteries  for  both  High  Moon 
Productions  and  Mystery  Cafe.  His  first 
Equity  production  was  the  Hostage  at  the 
Merrimack  Repertory  Theater. 

Paul  performed  in  independent  produc¬ 
tions  of  Boy  Meets  Boy,  Street  Theatre  (the 
Stonewall  uprising)  and  Royal  Paste  and 
Paper  Circus  (at  New  Ehrlich  and  other 
locations).  He  participated  in  various  produc¬ 
tions  for  the  New  African  Company  and  for 
Playwrites  Platform.  He  traveled  to  local 
grade  schools  in  a  musical  version  of  Jungle 
Book. 

He  also  choreographed  and  directed.  He 
was  proud  to  have  directed  the  first  produc¬ 
tion  of  Ten  Percent  Revue  (listed  among  the 
top  ten  plays  that  year  by  the  Boston 
Herald). 

A  man  with  a  big  heart,  he  visited  children 
with  AIDS,  raised  money  for  the  homeless 
and  PWAs,  visited  and  wrote  to  the  incarcer¬ 
ated  and  opened  his  home  to  friends  who  had 
failed  on  hard  times. 

Paul  was  in  constant  search  for  spiritual 
growth.  Besides  being  an  avid  reader  of  the 
Bible  he  was  an  ordained  minister  of  the 
Order  of  Melchizedek  and  became  a  shaman 
under  the  tutorage  of  Lynn  Andrews.  He  had 
a  healing  touch.  He  could  melt  clouds  and 
calm  waters.  Many  of  those  who  passed 
before  him  spoke  to  him  in  his  dreams. 

Paul  was  also  known  as  a  teacher,  most 
recently  he  taught  English  as  a  second  lan¬ 
guage  at  Northeastern  University.  He  taught 
kindergarten  and  fourth  grade  at  David  A. 
Ellis  Elementary  and  taught  kindergarten- 
Level  2  at  Farragut  Elementary.  For  many 
years  he  was  head  teacher  at  Children’s 
World  Day  Care. 

Paul  was  the  minister  of  music  and  the 
director  of  the  youth  theater  group  for  the 
United  Community  Church  of  Roxbury. 

He  will  be  missed  and  remembered  lov¬ 
ingly  by  his  mother,  aunt,  three  brothers, 
three  sisters  and  22  nieces  and  nephews.  His 
other  whole,  Richard  Gruender,  will  hold 
him  in  his  heart  eternally. 

Anyone  wishing  to  share  their  memories 
of  Paul  may  write  Richard  at  510 
Commonwealth  Ave.,  Suite  141,  Boston, 
MA  02215.  Information  about  a  Saturday, 
Feb.  22  memorial  service  may  be  obtained 
by  calling  522-5006.  — Friends 

Stan  Hadden 

SACRAMENTO,  Calif. — A  powerful 
voice  in  the  forefront  of  the  AIDS  epidemic 
Stan  Hadden,  died  of  the  disease  on 
December  2, 1991 ,  at  his  home  here.  Hadden 
had  been  the  senior  aide  to  Senator  David 
Roberti  at  the  state  capitol  and  had  been 
instrumental  in  establishing  legislative  guar¬ 
antees  of  basic  rights  for  the  gay  community 
and  people  with  HIV  in  California.  He  was  a 
man  who  cared  very  deeply  and  fought  vig¬ 
orously  for  those  living  with  HTV  infection. 
In  addition  to  his  legislative  duties,  Stan 
Hadden  also  wrote  a  political  column  and 
served  on  the  editorial  board  of  the  Positive 
Social  Support  Newsletter  (PSSN),  an  HIV 
information  publication  of  the  Lambda 
Community  Center  in  Sacramento. 

Stan  served  as  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Sacramento  AIDS  Foundation  and  as  a 
three-term  president  of  the  board  of  direc¬ 
tors. 

“I  deeply  admire  Stan  for  his  dedication 
and  effectiveness  in  working  on  some  of  our 
most  serious  health  and  human  issues,’’  stat¬ 
ed  Roberti,  Senate  President  pro  tempore. 

Others  who  paid  tribute  to  Stan  include 
former  San  Francisco  Mayor  Art  Agnos,  co- 
workers  at  the  Sacramento  AIDS 
Foundation,  legislative  aides  and  members 
of  ACT  UP/Golden  Gate. 

Some  of  the  legislative  bills  Roberti 
authored,  and  which  Hadden  helped  realize, 
include  SB.910  (1983),  which  created  the 
California  AIDS  Advisory  Committee, 
SB. 2244  (1984),  which  developed  a  plan  for 
treatment,  direct  services  and  preventive 
health  education,  and  SB. 1251  (1985),  which 
promoted  a  coordination  of  AIDS  services, 
including  pilot  projects  for  home  health  care 

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and  the  nation’s  first  AIDS  mental  health 
programs. 

Survivors  include  Stan’s  partner  of  eight 
years,  Ken  Topper,  a  devoted  lover  and 
many  times  Hadden’s  right-hand  man.  “Stan 
brought  dignity  to  a  community  that  was 
desperate,  and  left  behind  a  legacy  that  con¬ 
tinues  after  his  death,”  Topper  stated. 
Hadden  is  also  survived  by  his  parents,  four 
brothers,  one  of  whom  is  also  gay,  a  sister, 
numerous  nieces  and  nephews,  and  many 
turkeys,  pigeons,  polish  chickens,  rabbits, 
dogs  and  cats,  which  were  his  beloved  pets. 

Donations  in  Stan  Hadden’s  memory  can 
be  made  to  the  Sacramento  Regional 
Foundation,  the  Stan  Hadden  CARES  Fund, 
with  funding  earmarked  for  clients  of 
CARES,  an  HIV  model  treatment  center,  at 
1420  River  Park  Dr.,  Suite  140,  Sacramento, 
CA  95815.  — Arturo  Jackson  III 

Les  McAfee 

OTTAWA,  Canada — Les  McAfee  died  at 
home  on  November  5. 

Les  was  bom  and  raised  in  rural 
Saskatchewan.  He  became  known  as  a  politi¬ 
cal  organizer  and  worked  on  and  managed 
many  campaigns  in  the  1970s. 

In  1979  Les  became  executive  assistant  to 
the  Hon.  David  MacDonald,  Minister  of 
Communications  in  Prime  Minister  Joe 
Clark’s  cabinet.  Les  lata-  ran  an  unsuccessful 
campaign  for  city  councillor  against  the  part- 
time  incumbent  Marc  Laviolette  in 
November  of  1988. 

Les  was  a  familiar  figure  in  the  Ottawa 
lesbian  and  gay  community.  He  was  the 
owner/operator  of  Shades  Restaurant  and 
Bar  in  the  mid  1980s.  Not  only  was  Shades 
the  first  gay-owned  bar  in  Ottawa,  it  quickly 
became  a  focal  point  for  gay  and  lesbian  cul¬ 
ture  through  various  plays  and  exhibitions, 
including  local  political  events. 

Les  was  best  known  in  the  lesbian  and  gay 
community  as  one  of  the  founding  members 
of  Equality  for  Lesbians  and  Gays 
Everywhere  (EG ALE).  Without  fanfare,  Les 
devoted  his  considerable  lobbying  skills  to 
ensuring  that  lesbian  and  gay  rights  stayed  in 
the  forefront  of  federal  politics  and  on  the 
national  stage. 

Les  was  the  driving  force  behind  EGALE 
securing  $25,000  from  the  Court  Challenges 
program  to  fund  discoveries  in  five  cases 
that  challenged  instances  of  discrimination 
because  of  sexual  orientation. 

Les  was  instrumental  in  forging  links  with 
other  national  equality-seeking  groups  such 
as  the  National  Action  Committee  on  the 
Status  of  Women,  the  Canadian  Disability 
Rights  Council,  the  National  Association  of 
Women  and  the  Law,  and  the  Canadian 
Rights  and  Liberties  Association,  to  name  a 
few.  He  strived  to  bring  the  issue  of  lesbian 
and  gay  rights  into  the  mainstream  of  human 
rights  issues  by  coalition  building. 

Les  never  sought  personal  recognition  and 
was  often  approached  by  the  media  because 
he  was  a  credible  and  knowledgeable  source 
and  gave  a  damn  good  interview. 

Les  also  put  his  considerable  talents  and 
energies  into  a  project  that  typified  the 
human  rights  lobbying  he  had  become 
known  for.  As  General  Manager  of  the 
Canadian  Tribute  to  the  Human  Rights  mon¬ 
ument,  Les  oversaw  the  bulk  of  the  construc¬ 
tion  and  the  phenomenal  national  fundraising 
effort  for  the  project.  If  there  was  ever  a  fit¬ 
ting  symbol  of  Les’s  lifetime  philosophy  and 
work,  it  would  be  this  monument. 

— OttawaJHull  Info. 

Bob  McNee 

LOS  ANGELES — Dr.  Robert  Bruce 
McNee,  69,  died  of  asthma/emphysema/lung 
cancer/pneumonia  in  Los  Angeles 
Wednesday  evening,  Jan.  8,  and  the  earth 
shook.  Then  we  all  stood  still. 

Bom  in  Big  Timber,  Mont.,  raised  in 
Spring  Valley,  Minn.,  he  was  the  lover  of 
Shane  Que  Hee  for  the  past  13  years. 

A  former  director  of  the  American 
Geographical  Society  (1973-76),  chair  of  the 
University  of  Cincinnati  Geography  Dept. 
(1963-69)  and  Faculty  Senate  (1971-2),  Dr. 
McNee  was  also  a  Fulbright  Scholar  and 
served  in  the  U.S.  Navy  during  World  War 

n. 

An  activist  who  joined  the  NAACP  in 
1946,  marched  in  civil  rights  demonstrations 
in  the  '50s  and  ’60s  and  helped  to  develop 
the  U.  Cincinnati  affirmative  action  policy. 
Dr.  McNee  was  awarded  the  university’s 
Margaret  Core  Tangeman  Award  for  Human 
Dignity  and  Equality  in  1987. 

He  also  ran  as  a  Jesse  Jackson  delegate  in 
Hamilton  County.  Ohio  for  both  presidential 
runs. 

His  gay  liberation  achievements  include: 
being  declared  the  Gay  Mayor  of  Cincinnati 


(1986);  teaching  the  first  for-credit  under¬ 
graduate  course  on  lesbian/gay  culture  at  U. 
Cincinnati  (and  perhaps  in  the  U.S.)  (1983- 
86);  serving  as  organizer  and  president  of  the 
Lesbian/Gay  Academic  Union  of  Greater 
Cincinnati  (1980-87),  board  member  of  the 
national  Lesbian/Gay  Academic  Union 
(1980-92),  advisor  to  the  University  of 
Cincinnati  Gay  Alliance.board  member  of 
Stonewall  Cincinnati  (1982-84)  and  board 
member  of  Project  Rainbow  Los  Angeles 
(1990-92);  being  a  radical  faerie  since  1981; 
marching  in  both  national  marches  on 
Washington  (1979  and  1987);  and  pioneer¬ 
ing  the  field  of  gay-related  geography, 
including  running  a  panel  discussion  of 
gay/lesbian  geography  at  the  American 
Geographers’  Meeting  in  Denver  in  1983 
clad  in  a  pink  dress. 

Bob  believed  that  truth  and  justice  were 
not  abstractions  but  things  worth  living  and 
dying  for.  Never  separated  for  long  from  his 
trademark  cowboy  hat.  Bob  was  loud,  hilari¬ 
ous,  startling  and  angry. 

During  the  1980s,  Bob  was  one  of  the 
Queen  City’s  most  prominent  queer  citizens, 
outspoken  and  well  informed.  Bob  left  the 
pollen  and  pollution  of  Colerain  Township  in 
1989  for  a  condo  near  the  Pacific  breezes  of 
Los  Angeles.  His  life  partner  Shane  accepted 
a  job  at  UCLA. 

Bob  worked  for  justice  and  racial  equality 
all  his  life,  but  he  lived  a  lifetime  of  denial 
until  he  came  out  of  the  closet  late  in  life 
after  a  long  and  painful  internal  struggle. 

In  1978,  the  police  raided  the  parks, 
entrapping  closeted  gay  men,  and  Bob  saw 
injustice.  He  traded  in  a  life  of  success  and 
respect  from  the  straight  establishment,  gave 
up  his  suits  and  ties,  and  became  a  cowboy, 
an  activist  with  decades  of  experience,  and  a 
queer  who  was  joyful  and  angry,  at  the  same 
time. 

His  joy  came  from  finding  freedom  after 
so  long  a  denial.  His  anger  had  many  sources 
and  deep  roots. 

Bob  cared  about  people.  He  was  passion¬ 
ately  interested  in  the  gay  liberation  move¬ 
ment.  He  was  a  maverick,  he  beat  his  own 
path  and  he  spoke  his  mind 

He  was  critical  of  a  gay  community  that 
practiced  discrimination  at  so  many  levels. 
Bob  would  pound  his  fist  on  the  table,  he 
would  yell;  Bob  would  inspire  others  to 
extremes  of  anger  or  loyalty,  but  Bob  always 
spoke  the  truth,  most  often  when  nobody 
else  wanted  to. 

He  was  a  Radical  Faerie  in  a  city  noted  for 
plodding  conservatism.  When  Bob  showed 
his  slides  of  Faerie  gatherings,  which  he 
loved  to  do,  or  when  he  came  to  a  party 
dressed  in  nothing  but  war  paint  and  a  loin 
cloth,  we  laughed  with  him. 

The  ’80s  were  a  time  of  caution  and  small 
steps  for  most  local  gays,  but  not  for  Bob. 
Sometimes  Bob’s  liberated  style  cost  him 
friends.  Bob  was  involved  in  the  first  begin¬ 
nings  of  Stonewall  Cincinnati,  but  was  later 
denied  a  seat  on  the  Stonewall  Board  in  an 
election  still  believed  by  many  to  have  been 
rigged.  Bob’s  image  was  threatening  to  the 
suit-and-tie  activists. 

In  1983  County  Prosecutor  Simon  Leis 
tried  to  destroy  John  Zeh,  the  founder  of  the 
radio  show  GayDreams.  Bob  and  Shane 
organized  the  first  local  gay  defense  fund  for 
John. 

In  1989,  Bob  and  Shane  worked  like 
demons  in  the  bars  putting  together  a  coali¬ 
tion  that  carried  the  local  March  on 
Washington  for  Lesbian  and  Gay  Rights 
effort  to  a  stunning  success. 

Bob  organized  Cincinnati  Gays  and 
Lesbians  for  Jesse  Jackson,  and  his  efforts 
broke  down  barriers. 

Bob  helped  with  the  first  AIDS  demon¬ 
strations  in  Cincinnati,  dramatic  occasions  in 
1988  and  ’89. 

Bob  was  active  in  the  early  days  of  the 
Greater  Cincinnati  Gay  and  Lesbian 
Coalition  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Metropolitan  Community  Church  and  St. 
John’s  Unitarian  Church.  Bob  helped  start 
Interweave,  a  local  association  of  lesbian  and 
gay  Unitarians,  and  To  the  Roots,  a  local 
journal  of  “knock-down,  drag-out  radical 
queer  politics.”  Though  in  Los  Angeles 
when  GLUE  began.  Bob  and  Shane  kept  in 
touch  with  useful  news  clippings  and  gossip 
about  life  and  education  in  “La  La  Land.” 

Bob  is  survived  by  his  life  partner  Dr. 
Shane  Que  Hee,  his  separated  wife  Doris, 
children  Andrew,  William,  Margaret 
(Trikoupis),  George  (Outterson)  and  Douglas 
(Outterson)  and  sisters  Florence  Stanford 
and  Margaret  Madson. 

Bob  McNee  was  a  great  man.  We  miss 
him.  Memorials  may  be  sent  to  the  Robert  B. 
McNee  Memorial  Fund,  923  Levering 
Avenue.  Unit  102,  Los  Angeles,  CA  90024. 

—  Shane  Que  Hee,  Dan  Stephen,  Larry 

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sonal  life.  Part  One  ended  with  the  question 
unanswered:  “Why  Clay  Shaw?" 

THE  PLAYERS 

Jim  Garrison:  Ambitious  and  homopho¬ 
bic  District  Attorney  determined  to  prove  that 
Lee  Harvey  Oswald  did  not  act  alone  (if  at 
all)  on  that  fateful  day  in  Dallas.  Garrison 
was  unwilling  to  let  facts  stand  in  his  way  or 
worried  about  lives  being  destroyed  as  long 
as  he  was  in  the  spotlight.  (In  JFK ,  Oliver 
Stone  has  Kevin  Costner  play  Garrison  like  a 
hero  out  of  Frank  Capra). 

Judge  James  Haggerty:  Sat  on  the  bench 
for  the  Shaw  trial  and  believed  in  the  secret 
homosexual  underground  presented  by 
Garrison.  In  his  book  about  the  trial, 
American  Grotesque,  author  James  Kirkwood 
[whom  Mitzel  interviewed  in  1975]  quoted 
Haggerty  as  saying  that,  “The  jury  didn't  get 
too  much  on  the  queer  angle....  Queers  know 
queersP' 

Tom  Dawson:  A  close  friend  of  Shaw’s 
whom  Mitzel  corresponded  with  after  the 
trial. 

Mort  Sahl:  Liberal  comic,  political  com¬ 
mentator  and  famous  Kennedy  assassination 
buff  with  a  mean  homophobic  streak. 

Mark  Lane:  Lawyer  and  an  early  critic  of 
the  Warren  Commission  Report  who  disap¬ 
pointed  many  committed  assassinationolo- 
gists  by  aligning  himself  with  Garrison  for 
the  trial  of  Clay  Shaw. 

David  Ferrie:  Gay  right-wing  New 
Orleans  underworld  figure  whom  Garrison 
tried  to  tie  to  Shaw,  in  order  to  prove  his 
homosexual  conspiracy.  No  such  ties  were 
ever  proven. 

Clem  Bertrand:  A  name  dropped  by 
lawyer  Dean  Andrews;  Garrison  claimed  that 
this  and  “Clay  Bertrand”  were  aliases  of 
Shaw’s. 

Oliver  Stone:  Ambitious  filmmaker 
unwilling  to  let  facts  stand  in  his  way 
although  his  intentions  seemed  good:  to  get 
all  the  poop  on  a  crucial  story. 

BY  MIT/EL 

o,  there’s  still  the  question. 
Why  Clay  Shaw? 

Here’s  the  story 
Kirkwood  got:  "After 
Ferrie  died,  Garrison  was 
frantic  to  get  somebody. 

k— He  had  to  have  a  body. 

The  show  had  to  go  on. 
There  was  that  name  that 
lawyer  Dean  Andrews  had 
dropped,  Clem  Bertrand  or  Clay  Bertrand.  So 
when  somebody  said  that  some  lawyer  said 
that  a  private  person  called  up  on  behalf  of 
Lee  Harvey  Oswald,  his  name  was  ‘Clem 
Bertrand’  or  it  was  ‘Clay  Bertrand,’  and 
somebody  said  Garrison  said  'Find  a 
Bertrand  in  New  Orleans!’  Well,  there  was  no 
Bertrand.  Shaw’s  arrest  came  out  of  a  meet¬ 
ing  that  went  something  like  this: 

Somebody  said,  ‘We  can’t  find  a  Clay 
Bertrand.’  Garrison  said:  'Find  a  Clay.  Is 
there  a  Clay  somebody?’  Someone  said: 
‘Hey!  What  about  Clay  Shaw  at  the 
International  Trade  Mart?’  Another  said:  ‘O! 
He  speaks  Spanish  too!’  And  somebody  said: 
‘And  he’s  homosexual!’  Once  you  had  the 
two  givens,  that  Clay  led  a  homosexual  life 
and  that  he  spoke  Spanish  as  part  of  his  work 
at  the  Trade  Mart,  Garrison  really  wouldn't 
let  go.  I  think  the  homosexuality  is  the  prime 
factor  that  allowed  Garrison  to  keep  his  claws 
in  Clay.” 

And  how  did  this  name  of  “Clem”  or 
“Clay”  “Bertrand”  get  brunted  about  any¬ 
way?  It  was  a  made-up  name  for  a  made-up 
person  concocted  by  that  slime-bag  Dean 
Andrews.  On  the  stand,  Andrews  finally  told 
the  truth:  “Clay  Bertrand  is  a  figment  of  my 
imagination,  or  whatever  you  want  to  call  it” 
No  help,  alas,  to  Clay  Shaw. 

Kirkwood:  “I  think  that  something  that 
annoyed  Garrison  to  no  end  was  the  fact  that 
Clay  Shaw  was  in  his  everyday  dealings  with 
people  extremely  masculine.  He  was  not  a 
‘camp.’  He  had  great  dignity,  great  strength. 
He  had  a  great  sense  of  business  acumen. 
And  then  the  idea  that  he  was  also  a  homo¬ 
sexual  and  was  operating  well  on  all  levels  of 
his  life  I  think  was  absolutely  infuriating  to 
Garrison.” 

A  friend  of  mine,  who  was  in  New  Orleans 
at  the  time  of  the  trial  and  was  personally 
associated  with  one  of  the  principals,  put  it 
this  way:  “It  is  known  that  Garrison  really 
disliked  Clay,  and  the  bit  about  the  D.A.  feel¬ 
ing  inferior  is  based  on  much  truth.  Garrison 
was  tolerated  in  polite  New  Orleans  circles. 
Law  enforcement  has  never  gone  over  well 
with  socialites  anyway,  but  in  New  Orleans 
the  law  is  considered  akin  to  the  Mafia — a 
result  of  all  the  obvious  graft  and  corruption. 
I  don’t  think  power-mad  alone  is  the  explana¬ 
tion  for  Jim  [Garrison].  He  half-assed 
believes  his  shit.  The  other  half  is  a  Nixon 
crusade  to  wipe  out  some  inner  demon  he  has 
wrestled  with  all  his  life.  He  hates  Shaw 
because  Shaw  made  it  the  right  way.  He  hates 
fags  because  he  is  one  and  can’t  come  to 
terms  with  that.  He  hates  Oswald  because  the 
man  reached  the  pinnacle  of  notoriety  in  a 


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A  FRIEND  OF  MINE,  WHO  WAS  IN 
NEW  ORLEANS  AT  THE  TIME  OF 
CLAY  SHAW’S  TRIAL  AND  MAS 


OF  THE  PRINCIPALS,  PUT  IT  THIS 
MAY:  ’’GARRISON  ...  HATES  FAGS 
BECAUSE  IIE  IS  ONE.” 


matter  of  moments  and  Garrison  is  still  try¬ 
ing." 

Kirkwood:  “I’ll  tell  you  how  I  feel  about 
Garrison.  I  firmly  believe  that  he  believed 
there  was  a  conspiracy.  I  think  he’s  a  mega¬ 
lomaniac,  which  I  said  in  the  book.  I  also 
think  he’s  an  extremely  dangerous  man 
because  he’s  a  bright  man  in  many  ways.  He 
tends  to  have  blinders  on.  He  had  announced 
to  the  world  that  he  had  solved  the  assassina¬ 
tion.  Once  that  hit  the  papers,  all  you  saw 
was  Garrison  on  the  news.  Now  Ferrie  was 
dead.  Garrison  had  a  corpse  on  his  hands  and 
he  had  to  get  somebody  else.  But  he  was  like 
a  performer.  He  could  not  get  offstage.” 

Garrison  was  reelected  D.A.  in  1969,  and 
then  defeated  in  1973  by  Harry  Connick.  He 
went  into  private  practice  for  a  while  and  is 
now  a  judge  in  Louisiana 

After  perusing  this  crew,  let’s  look  at  Clay 
Shaw,  a  fine  man.  He  was  bom  a  country 
boy,  his  given  name  LeVergne.  At  age  16,  he 
co-authored  a  one-act  play.  Submerged, 
which  became  one  of  the  most  performed 
plays  by  school  and  community  theater 
groups.  Shaw  also  wrote  a  full-length  play, 
In  Memoriam,  which  appeared  in  New 
Orleans  in  1948.  He  translated  the  work  of 
the  Spanish  playwright  Alejandro  Casona. 
He  served  and  was  decorated  in  WW  2,  in 
which  he  suffered  a  back  injury.  For  a  time, 
Shaw  ran  a  theatrical  booking  agency  that 
handled  tours  for  concert  groups  and  the  like. 
After  the  war,  he  began  his  association  with 
the  Trade  Mart.  As  managing  director,  Shaw 
culminated  his  career  there  with  the  opening 
of  the  T.M.’s  new  building  in  1965  (a  com¬ 
mission  won  by  Edward  Durrell  Stone). 

Shaw  was,  in  addition,  a  leader  in  the 
movement  to  buy  and  restore  old  homes  in 
New  Orleans’  famous  French  Quarter,  trans¬ 
forming  it  once  again  into  a  fashionable  dis¬ 
trict.  Shaw  had  retired  from  the  Trade  Mart 
relatively  early  to  pursue  these  pleasures: 
architectural  restoration,  traveling  and  writ¬ 
ing.  Jim  Garrison’s  ambitions  ruined  all  that 
Shaw’s  savings  and  property  were  wiped  out 
by  his  ordeal.  Tom  Dawson  wrote  me:  “By 
the  way,  Clay’s  lawyers  never  accepted  a  red 
cent,  despite  marathon  work  for  him.  But 
when  it  was  over.  Clay  (then  broke  by  the 
cost  of  private  investigators  and  such)  sold 
his  house  to  give  them  something.  He  insist¬ 
ed.” 

During  the  trial,  Shaw  continued  to  reside 
at  his  home  at  1313  Dauphine  Street  in  the 
French  Quarter,  even  though  many  of  his 
friends  feared  for  his  safety  and  prodded  him 
to  get  some  security.  Though  there  were 
threats  against  him,  Shaw  was  pleased  by  the 
wide  support  he  received  from  people  all 
across  the  country,  shown  in  letters  and  small 
contributions. 

Lawsuits  tied  him  up  until  his  death.  A 
heavy  smoker,  he  died  in  1974  at  age  61. 
Rod  McKuen,  the  noted  poet,  was  sweet 
enough  to  place  an  obituary  in  Variety.  In  his 
last  years,  Shaw  went  back  into  real  estate 
development  He  did  some  public  speaking. 
At  one  college  engagement,  he  told  the  stu¬ 
dents:  “It  doesn’t  matter  what  happens  to  me. 
Terrible  things  happen  to  everybody.  But 
what  I’m  talking  about  tonight  could  happen 
to  anybody  within  the  sound  of  my  voice. 
You  think  it’s  impossible.  I  assure  you  it  is 
not” 

I  write  about  Clay  Shaw  here  because  I 
think  his  odd  ordeal  was  not  just  that  of  an 
individual  at  a  time  in  a  place  caught  in  the 
specific  confluence  of  events  and  ambitions. 
He  was  specifically  targeted  to  show  how 
power  really  works.  These  things  bring  out 
The  Ugly,  deliberately,  in  all.  Judge 
Haggerty,  later  to  be  pinched  in  a  cheap 
motel  at  a  stag  party  with  some  prosties,  was 
not  only  obsessed  with  Shaw’s  homosexuali¬ 
ty  but  insisted  that  Shaw  must  have  been  a 
“Mongoloid-Negro,”  and  saw  supporting 
evidence  for  his  prejudice  in  that  a  number 
of  Black  males  in  the  jury  pool  were  named 
Shaw. 

Mae  Brussel,  who  had  a  radio  show  on 
Pacifica  to  run  her  conspiracy  theories,  held 
the  view  that  Shaw  “was  CIA.’’  In  1975,  as 
avalanches  of  CIA  horror  stories  were  being 
unmasked,  it  was  not  a  pretty  appellation.  In 
January  of  1975, 1  asked  Brussel,  at  an  assas¬ 
sination  conference  in  Boston,  what  was  her 
source  for  this  line.  She  referred  me  to 
Marks  and  Marchetti’s  book.  The  CIA  and 
The  Cult  of  Intelligence,  which  turns  out  not 
to  reveal  much.  I  later  read  a  piece  by  Ed 
Sanders  in  WIN  magazine.  Sanders  wrote 
that  he  caught  up  with  Marchetti  at  a  Yale 
conference  on  the  CIA  and  asked  about 
Shaw.  Marchetti,  who  once  worked  for  the 
Agency,  said:  “I  was  Deputy  Director’s 
Assistant.  I  asked  the  Director’s  [Watergate 
perjuror  Richard  Helms’]  Assistant  about 
what  was  going  on  down  in  New  Orleans. 
He  said,  ‘A  long  time  ago.  Clay  Shaw  had 
been  in  contact  with  Agency.  He  was  in  the 
import-export  business.  He  knew  people 
coming  and  going  from  areas  in  which  we 
were  interested.  So  he  would  put  the 
Domestic  Contact  Services  in  touch  with 
people  so  they  could  be  debriefed.”  Now  that 
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O’Banion 

Continued  from  page  3 

between  O’Banion  and  the  two  police  offi¬ 
cers.  O’Banion  fell  to  the  ground,  suffering 
an  abrasion  over  his  eye,  causing  him  to 
bleed.  As  police  were  arresting  O’Banion, 
Johnson  informed  them  that  O’Banion  had 
AIDS.  -From  that  point  things  got  very 
weird,”  O’Banion  said. 

After  repeated  demands  to  be  taken  to  a 
hospital  in  order  to  obtain  essential  medica¬ 
tion  for  a  serious  condition  arising  from 
AIDS-related  meningitis,  a  police  supervisor 
called  to  the  scene  assured  him  his  requests 
would  be  granted.  However,  he  was  instead 
taken  to  the  jail  at  the  Hamilton  County 
Justice  Center  and  charged  by  the  city  with 
jaywalking,  disorderly  conduct  and  resisting 
arrest.  Then,  following,  procedure,  he  was 
turned  over  to  the  county  authorities. 

According  to  O’Banion,  when  three  coun¬ 
ty  corrections  officers  and  a  nurse  entered  his 
cell  to  treat  his  head  wounds,  he  refused  the 
treatment  and  asked  to  be  taken  to  a  hospital 
where  he  had  received  treatment  for  his 
AIDS-related  conditions.  He  said  he  told 
them  he  feared  he  had  a  concussion,  which 
could  be  very  serious  due  to  his  previous 
meningitis,  and  wanted  to  have  x  rays  taken. 

According  to  O’Banion,  the  corrections 
officers  denied  his  requests  and  forced  him 
to  submit  to  a  medical  examination  while  he 
was  lying  face  down  on  a  bench  against  the 
wall.  In  an  attempt  to  subdue  him,  one  of  the 
officers  put  his  hand  on  O’Banion ’s  neck  and 
pressed  against  his  lymph  nodes,  causing 
him  to  choke  and  cough  as  his  face  was 
pressed  against  the  bench.  He  said  he  sus¬ 
tained  a  fractured  nasal  bone  from  the  pres¬ 
sure  and  had  blood  gushing  from  his  head, 
nose  and  mouth. 

According  to  the  police,  O’Banion  verbal¬ 
ly  threatened  to  kill  them  and  forcefully  spit 
his  blood  at  them.  O’Banion  denied  the 
charges,  stating,  “They’re  in  uniform.  Their 
word  holds  more  weight  than  mine  does.” 

O’Banion  was  finally  taken  to  a  hospi¬ 
tal — although  not  the  one  at  which  he  had 
previously  received  care — where  he  was 
given  an  HTV  test,  despite  his  own  acknowl¬ 
edgment  that  he  was  HIV  positive.  Two  of 
the  corrections  officers  woe  also  given  HIV 
tests  due  to  their  perceived  exposure  to  his 
blood,  despite  the  fact  that  a  test  only  hours 
after  exposure  to  HIV  would  not  have  been 
positive  even  if  they  had  been  infected. 

O’Banion  then  spent  three  days  in  jail, 
much  of  the  time  in  his  blood-stained  clothes 
without  a  blanket.  During  that  time,  he  said, 
he  was  given  his  medication  sporadically  and 
in  inaccurate  dosages.  “It  was  hell,  pure, 
simple,  hell,"  he  said.  “I  don’t  know  how  I 
did  it”  After  learning  of  the  attempted  mur¬ 
der  and  assault  charges  brought  against  him 
by  the  county,  he  was  released  from  the 
Justice  Center  because  he  was  perceived  to 
be  a  risk  to  the  jail  population,  and  he  spent 
three  months  in  home  incarceration. 

The  municipal  charges  against  him — for 
jaywalking,  disorderly  conduct  and  resisting 
arrest — were  plea-bargained  to  misde¬ 
meanors  and  he  was  ordered  to  pay  $99  in 
fines  Jan.  29.  Cook  said  that  while  the 
defense  team  was  reluctant  to  plea  bargain, 
they  did  so  in  an  attempt  to  ensure  O’Banion 
would  not  spend  any  more  time  at  the  Justice 
Center.  Although  Cook  said  no  decision  had 
been  made  about  whether  they  would  sue  the 
city  or  the  county,  O’Banion  stated,  ‘To  me 
the  only  way  of  really  winning  is  suing 
because  it  seems  that  money  is  the  only  thing 
that  will  get  their  attention.” 

Citizen  review  faults  police 

An  investigation  by  a  citizen  complaint 
board,  the  Office  of  Municipal  Investigations 
(OMI),  released  last  month,  contained  evi¬ 
dence  verifying  what  several  activists  have 
stated:  that  Yontz  and  others  were  driven  by 
homophobia  in  their  decision  to  stop 
O'Banion  and  Johnson  for  jaywalking.  Yontz 
testified  to  the  committee  that  he  had  sur¬ 
mised  the  two  men  were  gay  “because  of 
their  attire  and  the  area  they  were  in  at  that 
time  of  night”  The  neighborhood  contains  a 
number  of  gay  bars. 

The  OMI,  which  serves  in  an  advisory 
capacity  and  does  not  have  any  direct  power 
to  discipline  police  officers,  found  that 
“O’Banions’  arrest  for  disorderly  conduct 
while  intoxicated  was  unlawful  because  it 
violated  his  right  to  free  speech"  and  also 
found  that  he  “may  have  been  priviledged  to 
resist  arrest,"  although  it  was  not  found  to  be 
certain  that  he  did  in  fact  resist.  Under  Ohio 
law,  citizens  are  privileged  to  resist  unlawful 
arrest. 

The  OMI  also  recommended  that  Prcm  be 
disciplined  and  the  training  for  disorderly 
conduct  in  his  department  be  reviewed. 
Judge  Bettman  also  scolded  the  officers,  say¬ 
ing  the  entire  situation  could  have  been 
avoided. 

Activists  demand  reforms 

Reacting  in  part  to  the  O'Banion  case,  gay 

8  •  FEBRUARY  23-MARCH 


and  lesbian  activists  in  Cincinnati  are  calling 
for  major  reforms  in  the  Hamilton  County 
Justice  System,  led  by  Sheriff  Simon  Leis. 
According  to  MacLarty  of  GLMA,  Leis  has 
a  history  of  making  anti-gay  statements, 
including  a  recent  comment  in  reaction  to  the 
O’Banion  case  that  he  was  “against  homo¬ 
sexuality.” 

MacLarty  told  GCN,  “He  made  our  job  a 
lot  easier  proving  he  is  unfit  to  serve  as  sher¬ 
iff  in  a  county  where  about  10  percent  of  the 
people  are  gay....  It  helps  when  people 
announce  their  biases.”  Leis  is  extremely 
popular  with  voters  county-wide  and  is  likely 
to  run  unopposed  for  re-election  this  year, 
according  to  MacLarty. 

ACT  UP/Cincinnati  is  working  to  curb 
Leis's  power  by  making  him  responsible  to 
die  County  Board  of  Commissioners  and  to 
set  up  a  monitoring  system  for  the  county 
justice  system,  according  to  member  Todd 
Kamm.  He  said  that  sheriffs  are  given  exces¬ 
sive  power,  and  although  they  are  financially 
accountable  to  the  commissioners,  they  are 
not  accountable  for  the  way  prisoners  are 
treated.  Further,  he  said,  “[Leis]  has  got  a  lot 
of  good  ol’  boys  in  the  prosecutors  office 
and  on  the  bench.” 

O’Banion  said  his  mistreatment  by  the 
Hamilton  County  justice  system  is  a  symp¬ 
tom  of  the  larger  societal  factors  affecting 
the  treatment  of  people  with  AIDS.  “The  fear 
of  AIDS  has  created  a  really  weird  climate  of 
both  hostility  and  prejudice,”  he  said. 

“I  am  a  person  living  with  AIDS,” 
O’Banion  continued,  “I’ve  dealt  with  it  very 
well.  I  don’t  have  a  fatalistic  attitude.  The 
last  thing  I  would  ever  want  to  do  is  infect 
someone  else.” 

—filed  from  Boston 

Nat’l  march 

Continued  from  page  1 
forward,"  she  said. 

New  England  organizing 

Approximately  15  people  showed  up  in 
Springfield,  Mass,  on  Feb.  8  for  the  second 
New  England  regional  meeting.  Those  in 
attendance  focused  on  outreach  for  upcom¬ 
ing  meetings  and  on  the  New  England  struc¬ 
ture,  participants  reported. 

Two  of  the  four  New  England  representa¬ 
tives  to  the  national  committee — who  were 
elected  on  a  temporary  basis  because  only 
seven  people  were  in  attendance  to  elect 
them  in  December — stepped  down,  but  were 
not  replaced  Feb.  8  because  of  low  turnout. 

Participants  debated  the  small  attendance, 
suggesting  poor  publicity  and/or  disinterest 
were  factors,  according  to  veteran  Boston 
Lesbian/Gay  Pride  organizer  and  Boston 
Lesbian  and  Gay  Community  Services 
Center  board  member  Janet  Kyle. 

Kyle  was  chosen  as  the  New  England 
regional  coordinator  for  the  march,  although 
she  expressed  confusion  over  whether  her 
position  was  a  permanent  or  temporary  one. 
“Right  now,  I’m  just  trying  to  get  things 
going,  get  people  to  the  meetings  and 
involved,”  Kyle  said.  “We  obviously  need  to 
do  a  lot  more  outreach.” 

The  first  meeting  for  Greater  Boston 
organizing  takes  place  March  14  at  the 
Boston  Lesbian  and  Gay  Community 
Services  Center.  The  next  New  England 
meeting  will  be  April  12  from  noon  to  5  p.m. 
at  the  gay  center  in  Hartford,  Conn. 

— filed  from  Boston 

Bar  raided 

Continued  from  page  3 

clubs.  But  one  gay  man  who  notified  the 
police  later  told  the  local  gay  newspaper. 
The  Blade,  “I  never  intended  to  bring  about  a 
police  raid.  I  was  upset  that  this  kind  of 
[unprotected  sex]  should  be  going  on  while 
people  are  dying  of  AIDS.” 

“If  it  is  true  that  the  [raid]  was  taken  as  a 
matter  of  public  health,  why  wasn’t  the 
[Health  Department]  notified  so  that  educa¬ 
tion,  not  incarceration,  could  be  used  to 
solve  the  alleged  problem?"  Conaty  asked. 

Activist*  rally 

At  a  Feb.  16  rally  to  support  the  Follies, 
Queer  Nation  activists  and  others  called  for 
the  resignation  of  police  chief  Isaac 
Pullwood,  who  they  said  okayed  a  four- 
month  probe  of  the  gay  club  but  has  failed  to 
spend  money  on  training  for  officers  about 
anti-gay  attacks  and  homophobia. 

Activists  also  protested  the  day  after  the 
raid  at  the  District  Building,  Washington’s 
city  hall,  and  held  an  impromptu  meeting 
with  the  City  Administrator  and  a  mayoral 
aide.  Then,  on  Feb.  10,  activists  protested 
outside  the  police  chief’s  advisory  board 
meeting.  Roughly  200  people  also  marched 
Feb.  15  from  the  Follies  to  the  police  depart¬ 
ment. 

Activists  are  planning  a  large  demonstra¬ 
tion  for  March  6,  as  well  as  vigils  every  day 
that  week  for  the  hate-crimes  law. 

“It’s  horrible  that  the  police  have  perpe¬ 
trated  this  kind  of  violence  on  our  communi- 
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hen  I  first  heard  that  Fannie 
Flagg’s  Fried  Green  Tomatoes  at 
the  Whistle  Stop  Cafe  was  being 
made  into  a  major  motion  picture,  I  was  elat¬ 
ed.  For  hours  upon  days  I  imagined  how 
Flagg’s  characters  would  be  made  incarnate. 
How  could  any  film  replicate  the  double- 
plotted  novel  with  its  interwoven  patches  of 
Southern  story  telling?  More  pointedly,  and 
closer  to  my  heart,  how  could  a  mainstream 
film  stay  true  to  the  main  yam:  a  love  story 
between  two  women  living  together  in 
Whistle  Stop,  Alabama  in  the  1920s  and 
’30s?  Well,  naturally,  it  couldn’t.  Some  com¬ 
promises  had  to  be  made,  and  they  were.  But 
just  as  soon  as  I  rationalized  my  way  back  to 
the  minor  miracle  that  this  book  had  been 
made  into  a  movie  at  all,  I  dropped  my 
Disney-esque  expectations  on  the  floor  and 
looked  at  what  was  left. 

This  is  what  I  saw:  Kathy  (yes-she-won- 
an- Academy- Award)  Bates  brings  Southern- 
bred,  middle-aged,  food  addict.  Pushover  of 
the  Year,  Evelyn  Couch  to  the  flesh.  A 
woman  of  the  1950s,  she’s  lost  in  the  ’80s: 
out  of  touch  with  herself,  her  slovenly, 
sports-addicted  husband  and  the  rest  of  the 
world.  Should  she  be  Marabel  Morgan,  the 
Total  Woman  icon  of  lost  housewives  who 
wrapped  themselves  in  cellophane  like  an 
appealing  sexual  entree?  Or  Martha  Stewart, 
with  her  perfectly  served,  perfectly  timed, 
perfectly  presented  perfect  dinners? 
Fortunately  for  us,  Evelyn  adopts  a  much 
funnier  and  more  powerful  alter  ego, 
Tawanda,  Tighter  of  wrongs,  avenger  of 
abused  children  and  machine  gunner  of  the 
male  genitals  of  wife-beaters.  Tawanda  is  the 
by-product  of  Evelyn  Couch’s  journey  to 
self-empowerment,  the  way  to  which  is  not 
paved  by  cliched  consciousness  raising  ses¬ 
sions,  but  the  tales  told  her  by  a  little  old  lady 
she  meets  in  the  Rose  Terrace  Nursing 
Home.  None  other  than  Jessica  Tandy  plays 
Mrs.  Cleo  Threadgoode,  a  Miss-Daisy-in-a- 
good-mood  kind  of  character.  It  is  through 
the  memories  of  Mrs.  Threadgoode  that 
Evelyn  comes  to  life.  Weeks  go  by  as  Evelyn 
becomes  engrossed  in  the  tale  of  Idgie 
Threadgoode,  tomboy,  boy-woman,  poker 
playing,  silver  tongued,  big  hearted  bee 
charmer  and  accused  murderer  of  her  "busi¬ 
ness”  partner’s  deserted  husband,  the  heinous 
Frank  Bennett. 


For  all  you  Mary  Stuart  Masterson  fans 
out  there  who  noticed  this  good-looking-to- 
the-bone  woman  in  the  movie  Some  Kind  of 
Wonderful,  (a  subculture  classic  that  has  frus¬ 
trated  lesbians  near  and  far),  Masterson’s 
portrayal  of  Idgie  Threadgoode  as  a 
Godamned  Independent  who  persists  in  the 
good  ole  boy  South  without  compromising 
her  strength  or  stubbomess  even  for  a  mil¬ 
lisecond,  does  the  character  justice.  For  those 
of  you  expecting  romantic  themes  to  be 
played  out,  prepare  yourself  for  some  heavily 
restricted  voyeurism. 

Idgie’s  romantic  interest,  Ruth  Jamison, 
played  by  Mary-Louise  Parker,  is  a  pure 
young  Baptist  girl  from  neighboring  Georgia. 
She  is  brought  to  the  Threadgoode  household 
by  Idgie’s  mother,  as  a  last  ditch  attempt  to 
rescue  Idgie  from  a  life  of  whiskey,  smoke 
and  solitude.  With  her  graceful  presence  and 
expressive  features,  Parker  is  the  kind  of  girl 
you  might  have  stoked  a  fire  for  in  high 
school,  until  you  realized  that  she  was  hope¬ 
lessly  heterosexual.  But  happily  for  us,  in 
Fried  Green  Tomatoes  fiction  triumphs  over 
personal  experience  and  Ruth  clearly  returns 
Idgie’s  affection  with  heartfelt  warmth. 
Joanne  Loulan  might  say  that  Parker  is 
femme  to  Masterson’s  butch.  Physically 
those  lines  are  drawn,  but  emotionally,  both 
women  exhibit  great  strength  of  character. 

There  are  some  carefully  played  intimate 
moments  between  the  two,  a  moonlit  swim,  a 
touch  on  the  cheek  here  and  there,  the  long¬ 
ing  look  of  love,  a  caress,  comfort  among 
tears.  But  what  I  really  wanted  to  happen,  a 
passionate  kiss  or  a  throbbing  embrace,  never 
made  it  to  the  screen.  These  are,  instead,  for¬ 
ever  doomed  to  fantasy  oblivion,  catapulting 
into  conjecture  like  the  Entres  Nous  of  our 
lives.  And  yet,  the  Idgie-Ruth  relationship 
survives  Ruth’s  abusive  marriage.  It  endures 
throughout  the  birth  and  maturation  of  the 
wonderful  Whistle  Stop  Cafe  with  its  fried 
green  tomatoes,  its  com  bread  and  its  barbe- 
ques.  It  sustains  childbirth  and  motherhood. 
It  lives  on  and  on  in  this  story,  even  as  char¬ 
acters  and  Cafe  die  alike. 

The  final  and  most  important  question  is, 
is  Fried  Green  Tomatoes  worth  all  the  com¬ 
promise  or  will  you  leave  the  theater  forlorn 
and  bleary  eyed?  Not  to  worry.  Even  though 
this  movie  was  directed  by  Jon  Avnet  and  not 
Steven  Spielberg,  it  will  leave  you  with  that 
warm,  gummy  feeling  you  get  when  Bette 
Midler  sings  a  lullabye.  You  will  look  around 
you  in  a  theater  filled  with  lesbians,  gay  men, 
senior  citizens,  heterosexual  couples  and 
Evelyn  Couches.  In  fact,  you  will  see  that  we 
are  not  so  different  from  the  world,  and  the 
world  from  us.  This  time,  for  as  long  as  it 
lasts,  we  all  get  to  eat  at  the  Whistle  Stop 
Cafe.  □ 


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Continued  from  page  8 

ty  but  the  positive  side  is  that  political 
groups  are  pulling  together  to  organize.”  Eve 
Faber,  a  member  of  OUT!,  said. 

Police  had  previously  assured  the  commu¬ 
nity  that  the  sodomy  law  would  not  be 
enforced.  Queer  Nation’s  Greg  Scott  told 
GCN.  “We  want  the  law  repealed  [immedi¬ 
ately]  he  said.” 

Activists  also  fault  Fullwood  for  failing  to 
follow  up  on  his  pledge  to  release  results  of  a 
police  probe  into  a  Halloween  incident  in 
which  police  are  charged  with  harassing  drag 
queens  in  a  gay  business  district  (See  GCN, 
VdI.  19.  No.  17). 

The  raid  is  the  first  conducted  by  D.C. 
police  since  1976,  when  the  vice  squad  bust¬ 
ed  the  Club  Baths,  which  still  operates  two 
doors  from  the  Follies  in  the  southeast  quar¬ 
ter  of  the  city.  The  U.S.  Attorney  dropped 
charges  then  after  protests  by  gay  activists. 

Homphobic  conspiracy? 

Conspiracy  fears  were  raised  because  the 
husband  of  the  council’s  Judiciary 
Committee  chair  Wilhelmina  Rolark,  news¬ 
paper  publisher  and  Black  community  leader 
Calvin  Rolark,  has  chaired  the  police  chief’s 
Citizen  Advisory  Council  for  15  years. 

“He  has  Chief  Fullwood 's  ear,”  Conaty 
said.  Council  member  Rolark  has  refused  to 
let  the  full  Council  consider  the  sodomy 
repeal  bill.  OUT!  has  staged  direct  actions  at 
her  home  and  office,  and  continues 
phone/fax  blitzes. 

Participants  said  they  worry  that  Sunday’s 
sweep  may  signal  renewed  crackdowns  at 
the  city’s  gay  clubs.  * 

Washington,  D.C.  is  the  only  jurisdiction 
in  the  U.S.  to  legally  allow  naked  people  to 
perform  on  stage  in  establishments  with 
liquor  licenses.  At  least  six  such  places  are  in 
operation  here.  □ 


Continued  from  centerspread 

was  a  very  overt-type  Agency  activity.  It’s 
one  of  the  more  legitimate  activities  of  the 
CIA  [information  gathering].  Then  he  said 
the  contact  [with  Shaw]  had  been  broken  off 
long  ago,  but  they  just  don’t  want  it  to  come 
up  at  this  point  because  a  guy  like  Garrison 
would  distort  it  and  the  public  would  misun¬ 
derstand  it”  [Which  is  exactly  what  Brussel, 
Lane,  Sahl,  Garrison  and  Stone  did.] 

So  what  now?  I  say:  let  us  press  on  and 
expose  corruption  and  cover-ups.  I’m  always 
eager  to  find  out  who  killed  whom  and  why. 
But  there  is  a  lesson  here:  the  damage  a  reck¬ 
less  pursuit  can  do.  Let’s  not  divorce  means 
from  ends.  Perhaps  I’m  more  set  off  by  the 
hunt  for  causes,  motives  and  perpetrators 
than  I  should  be.  But  what  happened  to  Clay 
Shaw  is  a  cautionary  tale,  indeed,  and  not  to 
be  forgotten.  A  search  can  slip  out  of  control, 
run  by  the  wrong  mavens,  and  start  its  own 
cycle  of  destruction. 

And  to  me  it’s  such  an  Amerikan  story. 
Even  those  who  think  they’re  on  the  side  of 
the  "good"  can’t  work  it  out  without  casual, 
if  not  malicious,  ruin,  winding  up  the  agents 
of  injustice,  and  then  running  off  to  new  book 
contracts,  new  TV  shows,  new  judgeships, 
bigger  movies,  and  leaving  the  consequences 
of  their  actions  like  some  slop  on  the  floor  for 
someone  else  to  come  along  and  clean  up. 
One  thing  I  have  learned:  with  types  like 
Garrison  and  his  clique,  and  now  the  Myth-o- 
Mania®  of  Stone,  the  clean-up  job  is  never- 
ending.  □ 


We  are  looking  for  proofreaders 
for  Wednesday  nights.  If  you  are  interested 
in  proofreading  or  any  of  the  other  exciting 
volunteer  opportunities  available  at  Gay 
Community  News,  please  call 

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1992 

...a  brand  new  year  (sigh).  I’m  young,  single,  not 
white  and  relatively  fire.  What  more  could  a  pro¬ 
gressive  gay  boy  ask  for?  A  little  romance?  A  lit¬ 
tle  fun?  Write.  GCN  Box  144  (29) 

SILY 

Slow  dancing,  swaying  to  the  music.  Slow  danc¬ 
ing,  just  me  and  my  (my,  my,  my)  girl.  You’re  the 
one  I  thought  I’d  never  find.  15  years  later  it  feels 
like  only  the  beginning.  Marian.  (30) 

DARLING  SUGAR  BEAR 

Miss  you!  Happy  Valentine’s  Day!  Love  & 
Respect  Cuddly  Bear.  (30) 

Muscular,  well-developed  GWF.  Looking  for  all 
sexual  pleasures.  Dominance  and  bondage  o.k. 
Send  most  erotic  photo  and  address.  Let’s  warm 
up  with  words,  then  physical  passion.  E.  Jones, 
P.O.  Box  5307,  Cortland,  NY  1 3045.  (30) 

Gardner,  I’m  sorry  that  you  think  I  only  want 
your  body.  I  want  your  mind  too.  I  just  didn’t 
think  you  had  enough  of  that  left  to  spare.  Box 
588  (32) 

Meet  interesting  men  and  women  in  your  area,  for 
list  of  names  and  addresses,  send  location  request 
and  $10.00  postal  money  order  to:  Charles  Street 
854769  P.O.  Box  30,  Pendleton,  Indiana  46064. 
No  cash  or  checks.  (30) 

Falman,  thank  you  so  very  much  for  the  wonder¬ 
ful  times  that  we  have  had  in  the  last  9  months 
that  we  have  been  together.  I  love  you  very  much 
and  always  will.  Your  little  Jake.  (30) 


letters  of  support  I  can’t  hardly  wait  until  we  can 
finally  be  together  as  one.  I  love  you  very  much. 
You’re  always  in  my  thoughts  and  prayers.  Write 
soon!  T.A.  in  Colorado.  (30) 

GWM  passive,  devoted,  blue  eyes,  slim  stature 
and  very  pretty.  Seeking  serious  and  masculine 
man  to  dedicate  myself  to  and  live  for.  While  I’m 
temporarily  incarcerated.  I’m  looking  ahead  to  a 
life  of  serious  romance,  love  and  good  times.  I’m 
well  educated,  love  poetry,  (reading  and  writing) 
erotic  art  and  sexual  creativity.  “Imagine  passion 
as  sly  as  a  lover's  hand"  GCN  Box  ZX12.  (30) 


I’m  too  sexy  for  this  ad  Box  789 


(32) 


Teddy  Bear  in  N.C.,  thank  you  for  the  wonderful 


GWM,  bm  hair,  1501bs.,  aqua  eyes,  20  yrs. 
Seeking  correspondence  and  romance  with  older 
gentleman  35  and  above  who  appreciates  physical 
beauty,  honesty  and  devotion.  Am  highly  sexual, 
passive  artist.  Am  in  youthful  offender  facility  for 
marijuana  possession,  out  soon.  Looking  for  a 
fresh  start  with  lovable  guy.  Photos  exchanged 
GCN  Box  W963.  (30) 

I’m  a  man.  I’m  a  one  night  stand  I’m  a  slut.  GCN 
Box  358.  (32) 

COME 

Thalia  Zedeck,  you  are  so  cool.  Spike.  (You  don’t 
know  me.  I  am  a  boy.)  (32) 

“Oh  My  Cock.”  See  ad  under  publications.  (32) 


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nicotine.  East  W.  Publication  304  Newbury  Suite 
333,  Boston  MA  02115-2332  (29) 

MALE  SURVIVORS  OF  SEXUAL  ABUSE 

Therapy  group  for  men  who  were  sexually  abused 
in  childhood  begins  in  March  and  lasts  12  weeks. 
Call  New  Directions  for  Men,  (617)  498-9881 

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Lesbian  &  Gay  Community  Services  Center 

Substance  Abuse  Counselor 

Program  assistant  to  provide  drug  and  alcohol  intervention  services, 
community  outreach,  education  and  training.  Two  years  minimum 
experience  in  services  delivery.  C.A.C.  eligible  a  plus.  Salary  mid-20's, 
excellent  benefits. 


Development  Officer 

Development  officer  to  research,  plan  and  write  grant  proposals  to 
develop  foundation,  corporate  and  government  support  for  the  Lesbian 
and  Gay  Community  Services  Center.  Development  experience  required. 
Salary  commensurate  with  experience. 


The  Center  is  a  non-profit  organization  serving  4000 
lesbians  and  gay  men  each  week.  Excellent  benefits. 

Direct  cover  letter  and  resume  to  Personnel,  Lesbian  & 
Gay  Community  Services  Center,  208  West  13th  Street, 
NYC  10011.  Clearly  indicate  position  desired. 

Women  and  People  of  Color  especially  urged  to  apply. 


Unit  Coordinator/ 
Receptionist 

High  profile  position  for  outgoing 
individual  with  a  positive  attitude. 
Responsibilities  will  include  switch¬ 
board  coverage,  client  flow,  mak¬ 
ing  appointments,  data  entry.  Lots 
of  contact  with  clients  both  in  per¬ 
son  and  on  the  phone.  Switchboard 
and  computer  experience  is  re¬ 
quired.  Experience  in  medical  set¬ 
ting  is  highly  desired.  May  require 
evening  and  Saturday  hours. 

Please  send  resume  to  Personnel, 
Fenway  Community  Health 
Center,  7  Haviland  Street, 

Boston,  MA  02115.  FCHC  is  com¬ 
mitted  to  equal  opportunity  employ¬ 
ment.  People  of  color,  women, 
lesbians  and  gay  men  are  encouraged 
to  apply. 

• — Fenway  Community 
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experience.  Please  submit  cover  letter,  resume, 
and  work  and  salary  history  by  March  30,  1992 
to:  Executive  Director  Search  Committee,  GLRC 
Board  of  Directors,  126  E.  Haley  St.,  Suite  A-17, 
Santa  Barbara,  CA  93101.  An  Equal  Opportunity 
Employer.  (32) 


Volunteer 


GCN  NEEDS  YOUR  HELP. 

GCN  began  as  a  volunteer  run  organization,  and 
we  still  depend  heavily  on  volunteers.  In  fact,  our 
survival  now  depends  on  more  people-power!  To 
find  out  how  you  can  get  involved,  call  426-4469 
and  ask  for  a  volunteer  information  package.  This 
will  give  you  a  better  sense  of  how  our  office 
works  and  the  type  of  help  we  need.  Below  are 
some  critical  ways  to  get  involved  right  away. 

OUTWRITE'92  IN  BOSTON. 

OutWrite  '92  Planning  Committee  seeks  eager 
beavers  and  diligent  domo  homos  to  serve  on 
conference  working  groups.  OutWrite  ’92,  the 
national  lesbian  and  gay  writers  conference,  will 
be  here  March  20-22,  1992  in  Boston  and  will  be 
co-sponsored  by  Oui/Look  and  Gay  Community 
News.  Call  Sue  at  695-0511. 


See  page  4  for  exciting  job  opportunities  at  GCN. 

Wanted:  Organizer  for  group  addressing  funding 
of  lesbian  and  gay  organizations.  Knowledge  of 
gay  community,  foundations;  self-starter,  excel¬ 
lent  writer.  Consultant’s  fee,  2dy/wk.  Send 
resume  by  3/16:  WGFLGI,  c/o  Astrea,  666 
Broadway,  NYC  1 001 2.  No  calls.  (30) 

WEAVE,  an  economic  self-sufficiency  project  for 
homeless  women,  helps  women  transition  from 
welfare  to  the  working  world.  Education  is  the 
bridge.  We  need  a  creative  and  compassionate 
teacher  to  lead  our  multi-level  GED  class.  Please 
leeave  message.  (30) 

BUSINESS  MANAGER/SALES  COORD. 

wanted  for  established  gay  newspaper  in  CT.  Will 
be  responsible  for  developing  business  strategy 
for  future  growth.  Must  be  creative,  professional, 
aggressive.  Service  established  advertisers  and 
pursue  new  ones.  Coordinate  promotions  and 
cover  some  club  and  arts  events.  Be  a  part  of  an 
exciting  new  direction  for  well-respected  publica¬ 
tion.  Base  salary  plus  excellent  commissions. 
Must  be  willing  to  relocate  to  CT.  Contact: 
William  Mann,  Metroline,  495  Farmington 
Avenue,  Hartford  CT  06105.  (30) 

FUNDRAISER-LAMBDA  LEGAL  DEFENSE. 
Nat’l  lesbian/gay  rights  organization  seeks 
Development  Director  to  plan  strategy  and  con¬ 
duct  all  aspects  of  fundraising  to  meet  $1.8  mil¬ 
lion  operating  budget.  80%  from  individuals 
through  membership,  direct  mail,  major  donor 
program  and  special  events;  significant  founda¬ 
tion  support.  Supervise  5  staff.  Extensive 
fundraising  exp.  and  success  in  related  position 
rqd.  Salary  $45-55K;  excel  benefits.  Send 
resume,  letter  and  references  by  March  4  to 
Deputy  Director,  LLDEF,  666  Broadway,  NY  NY 
10012.  Women  and  people  of  color  encouraged  to 
apply.  (30) 

EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR 

The  Gay  and  Lesbian  Resource  Center,  a 
nonprofit  community  service  organization  with  a 
$500,000  budget  serving  the  needs  of  lesbians, 
gay  men  and  people  with  HIV/AIDS,  is  seeking 
and  Executive  Dir.  The  Executive  Dir.  will  be 
responsible  for  fiscal  management  and  planning, 
personnel  and  staff  development,  fundraising 
campaigns,  community  relations,  and  media 
contacts.  Opportunity  exists  to  develop  innovative 
new  programs. 

Minimum  Qualifications:  Two  years  in  a 
management  position  and  paid  or  unpaid 
experience  with  nonprofits.  AIDS-related 
knowledge  absolutely  necessary.  Outstanding 
verbal  and  written  abilities.  Negotiation  skills 
desirable. 

Salary  commensurate  with  abilities  and 


For  sale 


“TAKE  A  STAND  FOR  SEXUAL  LIBERA¬ 
TION!  SUPPORT  GAY  RIGHTS  I”  t-shirts 
w/pink  triangle  underneath  (S-XL)  $12.00,  2  for 
$20.00.  Freedom  Alliance,  P.O.  Box  240915, 
Apple  Valley,  MN  55124.  (30) 

BRAINTREE-“MINT  COND.”  $147,000.00 

Colonial-completely  remodeled.  7  large  rooms,  3 
bedrooms,  1  1/2  new  baths.  Gunite  pool,  small 
professionally  landscaped  lot  Low  taxes,  near  T 
and  Expressway.  Owner;  (617)  843-3407.  (32) 


Services 


WELL  HUNG: 

Meet  other  guys  like  yourself  for  hot  pumping 
safe  fun,  or  big  banger,  low  hanger  romance.  Call 

- 27.  r.(  - 


now:  (617)  848-0027.  R.MC. 


Massage 


(32) 


YOUNG  BLACK  MASSEUR 

In  Beacon  Hill  for  complete  full  body  Swedish 
massage  you  will  never  forget.  $60,  call  for  appt. 
(617)367-9107.  (34) 


Apartments 


2  bedrooms,  6  room  apt.  near  T,  hardwood  floors, 
modem  kitchen,  high  ceiling,  safe  neighborhood. 
Please  leave  message  at  894-2406.  (30) 


Roommates 


ARUNGTON 

LF  &  F  seek  F  with  sense  of  humor  for  large 
sunny  apt.,  w/d,  porches,  fireplace,  pkg.,  near  T. 
Quiet,  no  smike,  min.  drugs/alc.  5310+.  648- 
4107,648-8245  (30) 

EAST  ARUNGTON— WALK  TO  T 

2  lesbians  plus  cat  seek  lesbian  25+  to  share  our 
home.  Good  communication,  sense  of  humor, 
open  to  racial  diversity.  No  smoke,  drugs,  mini¬ 
mum  alcohol.  Beautiful,  spacious  apartment. 
$340+,  643-2426.  (30) 

WEST  OF  BOSTON 

LF  +  dog  seeks  m/F  to  share  home  in  country  set¬ 
ting.  25  min.  to  Boston.  Lg.  yard,  deck,  pkg., 
W/D,  DW,  fireplace,  mod.  kitchen.  2  private 
rooms  +  bath.  No  smokers.  $450+.  Call  (508) 
655-2623.  (30) 


GAY  COMMUNITY  NEWS  •  FEBRUARY  23-MARCH  7.  1992  *  13 


SOMERVILLE 

March  la  or  earlier,  3rd  sought  by  2  plus  cat,  3rd 
fir.  Quaintly  beautiful  large  apt.,  100  years  old. 
Wood  floors,  laundry,  clawfoot  tub,  big  porch. 
Btwn  Davis  and  Union  Squares.  Quick  bus  to 
Davis,  Kendall,  Lee  hem  ere  and  other  T.  Clean  but 
releaxed.  Good  neighborhood,  easy  parking.  We 
smoke.  $325+.  Rachel,  Chris  or  Jenny  776-2811. 


3  LF,  LARGE  HOUSE,  JP,  SK  4TH 
Independent,  cooperative  household  with  a  sense 
of  humor,  a  cat,  low  rent,  near  Ts  and  progressive 
politics  seek  LF,  27+,  non-smoker,  minimal  alco¬ 
hol,  experience  with  group  living.  Available  3/1, 
522-757 Z  (29) 


PORTER-DAVIS  SO 

2  LF  seek  F  for  friendly  independent  household, 
nice  big  apartment,  W fD,  driveway.  No  smoke, 
$330+,  643-5903.  (27) 


HARVARD  SQUARE  AREA 

LF  seeks  25+  LF,  Bi  or  SF  to  share  2  bedroom 
apt.  5  min  from  Harvard  Square.  W/D  and  fire¬ 
place.  No  smoking.  $337.50  utilities  included. 
Call  864-6609 


Professional  gay  male  seeks  same  to  share  2BR  in 
Jamaica  Plain.  Fully  equipped,  large,  all  oak,  eat- 
in  kitchen,  pantry,  W/D,  porch,  yard,  ceiling  fans, 
new  windows,  fresh  paint,  re  finished  wood  floors, 
one  block  from  orange  line.  No  pets,  drugs, 
partiers.  Available  2/1 .  731-2205.  NO  FEE.  (27) 


FEMALE  HOUSEMATE 

DAVIS  SQ  (NEAR  RED  UNE/TUFTS) 

Three  women  (womanist,  of  varied  ages  and  sex¬ 
ual  orientations)  seek  woman  for  our  sunny,  spa¬ 
cious,  two  Door  apartment.  Friendly,  independent, 
quiet,  homey.  Next  too  laundromat,  stores,  park. 
Chem-free.  $300+  utilities,  2  phones,  666-2851, 
628-7687.  (27) 


FRIENDLY  HOME-SOMERVILLE 

2LFs  and  dogs  seek  ILF  to  share  house  in  Davis 
Sq.  Yard,  walk  to  T.  Short-  or  long-term.  No 
smoke/drugs,  minimum  alcohol.  $350+.  776- 
6612.  (27) 


BIG  HOUSE 

2  LFs  seek  3rd  for  3  fir  rent  controlled  house  in 
Cambridgeport.  Parking,  yard,  near  T.  Bdrm  and 
study  for  $286/mo.  661-6771  eves.  (hrs) 


LOVELY  CONVENIENT  SPUT  RANCH 

3LF  and  2  cats  (no  more  please)  seek  fourth. 
Suburb,  5  min.  to  Tufts,  10  to  Davis  Sq.  and 
Cambridge,  near  Rt.  93.  Lovely  2  1/2  bath  home, 
huge  yard,  gardens,  patio,  all  amenities,  fireplace, 
storage,  parking  ,  separate  phone  line.  Non  smok¬ 
er,  30+  desired.  $330+,  security.  Available  imme¬ 
diately.  721-2326. 


HOME  NEAR  WORCESTER 

seeking  L  for  4-bedroom  home  in  Shrewsbury. 
Available  immediately.  Parking,  washer/dryer, 
cable.  Independent  household,  $275/month,  plus 
utiltities.  Leave  message.  (508)  842-1020.  (ind) 


QUIET  COUNTRY  RURAL  LIVING. 

SLF  craftsperson  seeks  roomale,  to  occupy  fur¬ 
nished  room,  shared  kitchen/bath  and 
washer/dryer.  Vegetarian  preferred,  no  smoking, 
no  drugs,  p>ets  negotiable.  55  minutes  north  of 
Boston.  15  minutes  to  commuter  rail.  (603)  432- 
1081.  Anytime.  (28) 


TEELE  SQUARE,  SOMERVILLE 

3  lesbians  seek  4th  womarnst/feminist  to  share  the 
fun  and  frustration  of  creating  a  home  communi¬ 
ty.  Feb.  $275+  628-7604  (28) 


MAKING  A  HOME  IN  EAST  ARLINGTON 

1  friendly  considerate  LF  seeks  1-2  LFs  for  real¬ 
ly  nice,  spacious  3-bedroom.  Convenient  to  T.  Off 
street  patting.  Wood  floors,  surmv,  porches,  yard, 
basement  laundry.  Own  phone  line(s).  Petless, 
smokeless.  $385+utiL  Call  648-0970.  (30) 


MEDFORD 

Lesbian  looking  for  housemate  for  large  2-BR 
apartment.  Near  Tufts,  T,  laundry,  dogs  okay. 
$350  plus  utiL  Loren  391-1084.  (32) 


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PRISONERS 

SEEKING 

FRIENDS 

I  like  art,  reading,  country  and  rock  music. 
Needing  and  hoping  for  a  “friend  and  lover.” 
Please  no  games.  Ricky  Neal  Glamon, 
#96677,  Northpoint  Training  Center-Dorm 
6-LL.  PO  Box  479,  Burgin,  KY  40310 

GM,  26  seeking  correspondence  from 
someone  who  is  romantic,  affectionate, 
understanding,  honest,  confident,  warm, 
sharing.  Anthony  Williams,  #120588, 
Louisiana  State  Penitentiary,  Camp-D,  Gator 
4-R-6,  Angola,  LA  70712 

Dominant  23  y.o.  gay  American  Indian 
“male.”  Really  would  like  to  make  new 
friends  and  exchange  letters — sex  letters  too! 
Interests  are  reading,  writing,  computer 
science,  kick  boxing  and  working  out.  Jerry 
Walker,  #470151,  Rt4,  Box  1200,  Rosharon, 
TX  77583-8820 

GWM  wishes  to  correspond  with  gay  man. 
No  games  and  no  BS.  Mark  A.  Robinson, 
DOC  #910512,  Westville  Corr.  Center,  PO 
Box  473,  Westville,  IN  46391-0473 

Witty  Cape  Verdean  (Portuguese  & 
African)  25  y.o.  Gemini  from  East  Coast 
who  unfortunately  is  in  “tired”  Calif,  desires 
to  meet  an  equivalent  counterpart  for 
correspondence,  etc.  Can  write  other 
prisoners  that  aren’t  in  CA.  Gianni  Gomes, 
1600  California  Drive,  Dept:  D-97767,  LI- 
247,  Vacaville  CA  95696 

I  am  a  25  y.o.  who’s  been  incarcerated  for 
five  years  and  I  am  soon  to  be  free.  I  would 
like  to  correspond  with  a  gay  male  between 
the  age  of  19-40. 1  carry  myself  with  respect 
and  hope  others  will  do  the  same.  Darnell 
Leoward,  90A6872,  Box  149,  Attica  Corr. 
Facility,  Attica,  NY  14011 

I’m  34,  I’ll  write  anybody  that  will  write 
me,  I  love  reading  and  writing,  plus  I  like  to 
cook.  Glenn  Hudson,  BC-5808,  Graterford, 
PA  19426-0244 

Black  male,  likes  reading,  cooking,  biking, 
swimming,  fem-men,  queens,  T.S.,  T.V.,  etc. 
Garrick  Daniels,  90-A-9428/Drawer  B/Roule 
216,  Stromville,  NY  12582-0010,  B-3-313 

GBM  inmate,  thought  of  changing  my 
name  to  loneliness!  Please  need  to  hear  from 
other  gays  color  unimportant  I  will  write  all. 
Angello  Williams,  80-B-1329,  Box  500, 
Elmira,  NY  14902 

Attention!!  19  y.o.  GWM,  looking  for  a 
man  to  love  and  cherish.  Interests  include: 
poetry,  music,  art,  cars  and  a  romantic  night 
at  home  with  my  lover.  So  if  you’re  my 
lucky  man,  write  to:  Claude  C.  Johnson,  SID 
#8358972,  Oregon  State  Penitentiary,  2605 
Stale  St.  Salem  OR  97310.  No  prisoners. 

I’m  in  a  protective  custody  one  man  cell, 
and  it's  hard  to  talk  to  anyone.  I’m  gay,  I 
would  like  some  correspondence  with  TVs 
and  TS’s,  mostly,  but  would  correspond  with 
anyone  out  there!  John  L.  Martinez,  #97973, 
Unit-32-B-Bldg,  Cell-17,  Parchman,  MS 
38738 

GWM  inmate  lonely  and  getting  short 
have  pen  full  of  ink  but  no  one  to  write  seeks 
friend/lover  will  ans.  all  please  write.  Rex 
Koytila,  91A517,  POBox  500,  Elmira,  NY 
14902 

39  y.o,  interests  are  music,  classic  movies, 
massage  and  cuddling,  plenty  o  f  love  to 
share  with  someone  special.  Wayne  Tubbs, 
PO  Box  250,  Draper,  Utah,  84020 

30  y.o.,  nice  personality,  speak  truthfully, 
what’s  on  my  mind.  Hobbies  are:  all  sports, 
country  music.  Rock  &  Roll,  good  movies, 
making  things  with  my  hands.  Craig  Parrott, 
D-21024,  B-5-B-220,  P.O.  Box  29,  Represa 
CA  95611 

I  hunger  for  some  type  of  freindship- 
asociation  which  doesn’t  revolve  around  the 
prison-violence  mentality.  I  am  freindly  and 
easygoing.  I  love  cats  and  sailing.  Don  Cleo 
Day.  E22707,  4A3R  60,  PO  Box  60,  PO  Box 
3476,  Corcoran.  CA  93212 


WOMEN 

SEEKING 

FRIENDS 

32  y.o.  dominate  female  looking  to 
correspond  with  sincere  minded  people. 
Can’t  write  other  prisoners.  Gwendolyn 
Jones,  152717,  PO  Box  8540/35,  Pembroke 
Pines  FL  33024 

Black  woman  looking  for  a  Black  woman. 
I  just  want  a  true  woman.  I  want  someone 
that’s  willing  to  spend  their  life  with  another 
woman.  Bascially  I  want  a  friendship  from 
the  beginning  if  your  interested  you  can 
write  me.  Naze  Simmons,  PO  Box  180, 
Muncy,  PA  17756.  The  gay  life  is  my  life. 
Try  me  you  surely  will  like  it 

Single,  sexy,  Bi.  Looking  for  good  sex, 
clean  and  kinky.  Fun  is  a  must! !  You  only  live 
once,  come  on  write  me  the  best.  Collecting 
sexy  lingerie  and  making  love  in  the  rain 
turn  me  on.  Only  sincere  should  write.  Ages 
25-60.  Sherri  Kelley.  P.O.  Box  109-3822, 
PeeWee  Valley,  KY  40056 


37  y.o.  GM,  very  young  at  heart  would 
love  to  write  someone,  only  down  for  a  short 
time,  loves  outdoors  and  romances,  music. 
Main  interest  is  improving  myself  and 
finding  someone  to  share  thoughts  and 
feelings.  Daniel  Kelly,  #038394,  PO  Box 
1072,  Arcadia  FI  33821 

GBM,  age  32,  incarcerated  and  looking 
for  gay  friends  with  interests  in  sports, 
poetry,  sexcapades,  spiritualism.  No  inmates. 
Frank  Elijah  Smith,  #04692,  Florida  State 
Prison,  PO  Box  747,  Starke,  FL  32091 

6  months  until  I’m  free.  Lonely  24  y.o. 
redhead  looking  for  that  one  man  to  take  care 
of  me.  I’m  caring  &  willing  to  learn 
anything.  Write  Pat  Garrett,  PO  Box  8288, 
Boise,  Idaho  83707 

GWM,  23  y.o.  seeks  a  loyal  long  lasting 
relationship  with  a  non  smoker,  disease  free 
understanding  GM.  No  drugs.  David 
Duplantis,  C-P,  Unit  32C,  Parchman,  MO. 
38738 

I  don’t  have  any  family.  I’m  looking  for 
someone  that  wants  to  meet  a  young  guy  for 
friendship  and  maybe  more.  I’m  looking  for 
someone  open  minded  and  honest  and  that 
can  help  me  out  from  time  to  time.  Jimmy 
Cole,  #96613,  POBox  97,  McAlester,  OK 
74502 

Lonely  gay  angel  needs  your  letters.  Will 
answer  all.  Angel  Flores,  #189284,  POBox 
45699,  Lucasville,  OH  45699-0001 

I  will  be  released  from  this  hellhole  very 
soon,  I  have  been  incarcerated  for  several 
years,  and  have  lost  all  my  family  and 
friends  over  the  years.  I  have  no  place  to  go 
upon  my  release.  I  am  very  clean  and  neat, 
willing  to  pay  my  way  if  someone  will  find  it 
in  their  heart  the  desire  to  help  a  gay  brother 
get  on  his  feet.  I  can  and  will  work  doing 
most  anything  to  make  my  own  way.  I  know 
chances  are  not  in  my  favor,  but  I  hope  and 
pray  someone  will  read  this  and  want  to  give 
me  a  chance.  Gerald  Phelps,  #117296,  Camp 
C,  Jaquar  4-Left-3,  LA  State  Prison,  Angola, 
LA  70712 

Black  bisexual  male,  I  am  a  lonely 
prisoner  looking  for  mature  and  understand 
gay  male  for  correspondence  and  possibly  a 
relationship  and  race  or  age  is  not  a  factor. 
Lesley  Dawson,  213-276,  PO  Box  45699, 
Lucasville,  OH  45699-0001 

I’m  35  very  easygoing  and  will  a  good 
sense  of  humor.  I  am  not  particular  who 
should  write.  Gerald  Rubalcaba,  Box  7500, 
B  #85887,  SHU  C9.  B105,  Crescent  City, 
CA  95532-7500 

Interested  in  corresponding  with  someone 
from  the  Northern  Calif,  area.  I’m  39  and  a 
weightlifter.  Mark  Christiansen,  19762-008, 
PO  Box  1000,  Oxford,  WI 53952 


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Boston  ♦  Healing  service  for  those  affected  by 
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Boston  ♦  Panel  discussion:  ‘Fight  Discrimination: 
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Bridgewater  ♦  Dave  Pallone  on  homophobia  In 
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Bisexual,  Gay  and  Lesbian  Alliance.  7pm,  balroom, 
top  floor  of  Adrian  Rondileau  Campus  Center.  Ad¬ 
mission  tree.  For  more  Info  (508)  697-1200  x2032 
weekdays  10-4. 


27  Thursday 

Boston  ♦  Comedian  Betsy  Saklnd's  New  Work-In 
Progress.  The  ICA,  955  Boylston  St.,  $10,  $8.  For 
more  info  266-5152. 

Jamaica  Plain  ♦  Open  mike  w/Sharon  Sue  Klein- 
man.  Comedy,  music,  poetry.  Crones'  Harvest,  761 
Centre  Street,  7:30pm.  Call  to  sign  up:  983-9530 
tty/ldd. 

Cambridge  ♦  ‘Constitutional  and  Political  Impli¬ 
cations  of  Recent  Scientific  Studies  of  Homosex¬ 
uality"  with  Prof.  Richard  Plllard  and  panel.  6-9pm, 
Austin  Han  North.  Harvard  Law  School.  Admission 
free.  For  more  Info  492-5110. 

Cambridge  ♦  'Communism  and  the  Fight  for  Black 
Liberation.'  Sponsored  by  Spartaclst  League.  8pm, 
Emerson  Hall  Room  305,  Harvard.  Admission  free. 
For  more  Info  492-3928. 

Boston  ♦  ‘HIV-posltlve  Women  and  the  Manage¬ 
ment  of  PID.‘  Cambridge  Hospital,  Macht  Building, 
Floor  2,  5:30-7pm.  Co-sponsored  by  the  Boston 
AIDS  Consortium.  Admission  free.  For  more  info 
432-0885. 

Cambridge  ♦  Prof.  Rev.  Peter  J.  Gomes  speaks  on 
Christianity  &  Sexuality.  7pm,  Room  6-120,  77 
Mass.  Ave.  Sponsored  by  GAMIT  (Gays  at  MIT). 
For  more  Info  225-7127  (Johanna). 

Cambridge  ♦  ‘What's  the  Queer  Angle  on  the  Dem¬ 
ocratic  Candidates?*  following  the  General  Meeting 
of  the  Cambridge  Lavender  Alliance,  7 -9 pm  (come 
for  all  or  part).  Media  Cafeteria,  Cambridge  Rlndge 
&  Latin  School,  459  Broadway.  For  more  Info  876- 
3874  or  868-1693. 

28  Friday 

Philadelphia,  PA  ♦  Workshop  on  ‘Dismantling 
Racism.*  Trainers:  George  Lakey  and  Barbara 
Smith.  For  more  Info  (215)  729-7458. 

Cambridge  ♦  DOB  35+/-  rap  holds  open  discus¬ 
sion.  Old  Cambridge  Baptist  Chursh,  1151  Mass. 
Ave.,  8pm.  For  more  Info  661-3633. 

Waltham  ♦  Spaghetti  dinner  to  benefit  the  Support 
Comlttee  for  Battered  Women.  First  Parish  (Uni¬ 
tarian),  50  Church  St,  5:30-7:30pm.  $5/adults, 
$4/senlors,  $3/children,  $15  per  family  w/3  or  more 
children.  For  more  Info  891-0724. 

29  Saturday 

Boston  ♦  Films  by  Donna  Read:  Goddess  Remem¬ 
bered  and  The  Burning  Times.  Museum  of  Fine 
Arts,  465  Huntington  Ave.,  noon.  $4.50  members, 
students,  seniors;  $5.00  others.  For  series  tickets 
call  267-9300  x306;  for  group  rates  call  267-9300 
x454  (Jim). 

Jamaica  Plain  ♦  Goddess  Gospel  In  concert.  Multi¬ 
cultural  a  capella  group.  Crones'  Harvest,  761 
Centre  Street,  8pm.  For  more  Info  983-9530  tty/tdd. 

Boston  ♦  Third  Annual  Community  Awards  of  the 
Coalition  for  Lesbian  and  Gay  CMI  Rights.  7-9:30  at 
Club  Cafe,  209  Columbus  Ave.  $15/advance, 
$10/students,  $20/door.  For  more  Info  327-7771. 
White  River  Junction,  VT  ♦  Mardl  Gras  '92! 
7:30pm-1am,  formal  dining  room  and  Vermont 
Room  at  the  Hotel  Coolidge,  Main  Street. $1 0/door. 
For  more  info  write  S.A.M.,  PO  Box  479,  Norwich, 
Vermont  05055. 

Boston  ♦  ‘Black  Rlmmakers:'  open  call  screening 
at  The  Boston  Film  and  Video  Foundation,  1126 
Boylston  St.  Sponsored  by  Blackburst  Multimedia. 
$5,  Includes  reception.  For  more  info/showtimes, 
call  Glgi  Plcclllo  or  Suzanne  Taylor,  859-1822. 

March  1  Sunday 

Boston  ♦  Songs  of  Conscience  by  Leonard  Lehr- 
man,  piano,  and  Helene  Williams,  soprano.  11am  at 
The  Community  Church  of  Boston,  565  Boylston 
Street.  For  more  info  266-6710. 

2  Monday 

Cambridge  ♦  DOB  business  meeting  has  moved  to 
the  first  Monday  of  each  month.  Old  Cambridge 
Baptist  Church,  1151  mass.  Ave.,  8pm.  For  more 
Info  661-3633. 

6  Friday 

Boston  ♦  ‘Beyond  AIDS:  A  Healing  Seminar.' 
7:30-9:30pm,  The  Boston  Living  Center,  140  Clar¬ 
endon  St.  (7th  R.,  YWCA  Bldg.).  Sponsored  by  the 
Mobile  AIDS  Resource  Team,  Fenway  Community 
Health  Center,  The  Boston  Living  Center  and  AIDS 
ACTION  Committee.  Small  donation  requested. 
Workshop  follows  on  Sat.  (see  listing).  For  more  Info 
262-5114. 

8  Sunday 

Cambridge  ♦  Benefit  for  GCN  In  honor  of 
International  Women's  Day  with  the  all  women's 
percussion  group,  Batacuda  Belles;  the  Red  Hot 
Vulvas;  the  all  women  rock  band  from  Maine,  the 
Brood;  readings  by  Less  Lessard  and  Tina  Portillo 
and  films  by  Julie  Zammarchi.  The  Middle  East 
Cafe,  472  Mass.  Ave.,  Cambridge,  MA. Tickets  $6. 
Doors  open  9  p.m.  For  more  info:  354-8238. 

Saturdays 


Boston  ♦  40+  Lesbians.  Social  group  sponsoring 
potlucks,  billiards,  plays,  brunches,  new  members 
welcome.  For  more  Info  891-3711, 599-4472. 

Cambridge  ♦  Swingtime.  Monthly  lesbian,  gay,  bl 
swing  dance  with  authentic  big  band  sound.  Rrst 
Sat.  of  month.  Old  Cambridge  Baptist  Church,  1151 
Mss.  Ave.  8:15-9pm.  $6  Includes  refreshments.  For 
more  Info  629-2219. 

Boston  ♦  BLOW  (Boston's  Leathermen  On 
Wheels).  New  social  club  for  gay  motorcyclists  now 
forming.  For  more  info  and  location  783-9296. 
Boston  ♦  Frontrunners.  Meet  at  Metropolitan  Health 
Club  for  2  to  5-ml.  run  along  Charles.  Lockers  and 
showers  $1.00.  10am.  Also:  Tues.  11:45pm.  at 
MHC;  Wed.  6:45  pm.  at  Hatch  Shell;  Sun.  3:00pm. 
at  Jamaica  Pond  Boathouse.  Info:  Sara  524-4025. 

Boston  ♦  Two-Steppin'  for  AIDS*  Texas  Two-step¬ 
ping  and  line  dancing  for  the  HIV  positive  communi¬ 
ty  and  their  friends.  At  the  Boston  Living  Center, 
YWCA,  140  Clarendon  St.,  7th  fl.  Third  Saturdays, 
7:00-12:00pm.  Donations  go  to  direct  services  for 
people  with  AIDS.  Info:  236-1012. 

Cambridge  ♦  Single  Mothers'  Support  Group.  Free 
drop-in  group  with  child  care,  alternate  Saturdays. 
Women's  Center.  46  Pleasant  St.  11am-12:30  pm. 
354-8807. 

Boston  ♦  Pink  Flamingos.  TV/TS  of  New  England.  4 
to  6  pm.  338  Newbury  St.,  2nd  fir.  247-2927. 

Boston  TV  ♦  PrldeTIme — Boston  G/L  TV,  with 
Cynthia  Pape.  7:30  p.m.  Boston  Neighborhood 
Network,  channels  A3  and  A8.  Also  on  Cambridge 
Cable  Channel  19,  7  pm.  Tuesdays,  and  on  other 
systems;  check  listings. 

Jamaica  Plain  ♦  Women's  Coffeehouse.  Musical 
entertainment,  usually.  8  pm.  Crone's  Harvest,  761 
Centre  St.  $5  suggested  donation.  983-9530. 
Cambridge  ♦  A  multicultural  story  hour  for  children 
aged  3-8.  Sponsored  by  FCHC  and  Lesbian 
Mothers  Group.  Third  Sat.  of  every  month.  Info: 
267-0900  ext  292. 

Sundays 

Woburn  ♦  Chlltem  Tennis  Assoc.  Meets  each  Sun. 
for  singles  and  doubles.  For  more  Info  (508)  670- 
0988. 

Boston  ♦  Boston  Alliance  of  G/L  Youth  (BAGLY) 
Drop-In  Center.  St.  John  the  Evangelist  Church,  35 
Bowdoin.  (800)  42BAGLY. 

Boston  ♦  Work  Issues  Support  Group.  2  to  4  pm 
G/L  Comm.  Ctr.,  338  Newbury  St. 

Boston  ♦  Boston  Strikers  Soccer  Club.  Weekly 
novice  and  club  scrimmages.  All  levels.  3  pm.  Info: 
Erik  423-0929  or  Jeff  876-7612. 

Cambridge  ♦  Lesbian  Sports.  Magazine  Field, 
Memorial  Dr.  Spons.  by  DOB.  Softball  4  to  6  pm; 
volleyball  6  pm  1H  dark.  $1 .  Info:  Steph  625-9551 . 

Boston  ♦  Dignity  Mass.  Liturgy  followed  by  a  social 
hour.  St.  John  the  Evangelist  Church,  35  Bowdoin 
St.  5:30  p.m.  536-6518. 

Boston  ♦  Western  Orthodox  Church  Mass. 
Arlington  St.  Church,  351  Boylston  St.  227-5794. 

Provlncetown  ♦  Christian  Healing  Service.  5:30  pm. 
96  Bradford  St.  (P'Town  AIDS  Support  Grp.)  Pot 
luck  dinner  to  follow.  (508)  487-3866. 

Boston  ♦  Metropolitan  Community  Church 
Worship/Fellowship.  131  Cambridge  St.  (near  Govt 
Ctr.).  7  pm.  Info:  Rev.  Tanls  437-0420. 

Boston  ♦  Narcotics  Anonymous.  L/GM.  The  Center, 
338  Newbury  St.  8  pm.  247-2927. 

Boston  ♦  The  Gay  Dating  Show,  WUNR  1600AM. 
10:30pm-2:30  am. 

Boston  ♦  Different  Strokes  Swim  Team.  Coached 
work-outs  for  swimmers  of  all  abilities.  10:15.  Info: 
767-0449  or  282-3110. 

Mondays 

Manchester,  NH  ♦  ACT  UP/NH.  Meets  Mondays. 
Manchester  Public  Library,  405  Pine  ST.  7pm.  For 
more  info  (603)  647-4224. 

Boston  ♦  New  Support  Group  for  Recovering 
Women  with  HIV/AIDS.  Sponsored  by  Women,  Inc. 
Call  Magda  or  Christine  for  a  screening  interview 
442-6166. 

Boston  4  Queer  Nation  meets  1st  and  3rd  Mondays 
al  new  location:  Local  26,  58  Berkeley,  3rd  Floor. 
7:00  pm. 

Worcester  ♦  AIDS  Project  Worcester.  A  support 
group  for  family,  friends,  concerned  others  dealing 
with  HIV.  305  Shrewsbury  St.  7-8:30  pm.  (508)755- 
3773. 

Cambridge  ♦  Lesbian  Rap  Group.  The  Women's 
Center.  46  Pleasant  St.  8-10  pm.  354-8807. 

Tuesdays 

Boston  ♦  "The  Women  Poet."  Local  women  poets 
read  their  work  in  a  social  setting  every  Tuesday. 
7:30pm.  Donation  requested.  The  Center,  338 
Newbury  St.  For  more  info  247-2927,  247-0579. 

Boston  ♦  TefHlat  Refuat  Hanefesh.  ‘Service  of  the 
Healing  of  the  Soul,*  for  Jewish  Patients,  their  fami¬ 
lies  and  healthcare  providers.  Rrst  Tues.  of  month. 
6pm.  For  more  Info  566-3960. 

Boston  ♦  Gay  Fathers  of  Greater  Boston.  Meetings 
held  1st  and  3rd  Tues.  of  month.  Undemann  Center, 
25  Stanfford  St.  $2  donation.  8-10pm.  For  Info  742- 
7897. 

Boston  ♦  Boston  Coaltlon  for  Black  Lesbians  and 
Gays.  2nd  Tues.  of  month.  Harriet  Tubman  House, 
566  Columbus  Ave.  For  more  info  424-6989. 

Jamaica  Plain  ♦  Batacuda  Betas  rehearsal.  Open 
to  women  of  color.  Muklculural  Arts  Center,  Centre 


St.  7-9pm.  For  more  Info  864-5067. 

Providence,  Rl  ♦  ACT  UP/Rhode  Island.  Call  for 
meeting  place  (401)  461-4191. 

Gloucester  ♦  Healing  Circle  /  Positively  Clean  and 
Sober.  Healing  circle  6:30  to  8  p.m.,  open  to  anyone 
facing  chronic  or  Hfe-threatening  Illness.  Pos.  CAS  8 
to  9  p.m.,  for  people  tvlng  with  HIV  and  dealing  with 
subst.  abuse  Issues.  N.  Shore  AIDS  Project,  19 
Pleasant  St.  (508)  283-0101. 

Boston  ♦  ACT  UP/Boston.  The  Living  Center, 
YWCA,  140  Clarendon  St.  7  p.m.  49-ACTUP. 

Cambridge  ♦  Bisexual  Women’s  Rap.  The 
Women's  Center.  46  Pleasant  St.  7-8:30.  354-8807. 

Cambridge  e  Eating  Awareness  and  Body  Image 
Group.  The  Women’s  Center.  46  Pleasant  St.  7- 
9pm.  354-8807. 

Medford  Radio  ♦  Dyke  on  the  Mke  with  the  Noisy 
Nelly  Show  —  queer  radio.  WMFO  91.5FM.10am- 
12pm.  Tufts  U.  radio.  For  Info  381 -3800. 

Medford*  "We  the  People*— with  feminist  Sheila 
Parks.  WMFO  91.5FM.  7-9a.m.  Tufts  U.  radio. 

Worcester  ♦  Support  Group  for  HIV+  G/B  Men  and 
Their  Significant  Others.  Closed  meeting.  AIDS 
Project  Worcester.  305  Shrewsbury  St.  7-8:30  p.m. 
(508)  755-3773. 

Boston  ♦  L/G  Freedom  Tral  Band  Rehearsals.  No 
audition  necessary.  Mass  Colege  of  Art,  Longwood 
and  Brookline  Ave.  7:15  p.m.  266-0628. 

Boston  ♦  The  Buddy  Program  orientation. 
Sponsored  by  AAC.  4th  Tues.  of  month.  AAC 
offices,  131  Clarendon  St.  7:30pm.  For  more  into 
437-6200  X450. 

Amherst  ♦  P-FLAG,  Pioneer  Valley  Monthly  meet¬ 
ings  held  2nd  Tues.  of  month.  Grace  Episcopal 
Church,  Parish  Hall.  6:30  pm.  For  Info  (413)  532- 
4883. 

Wednesdays 

Boston  ♦  Women  In  the  Building  Trades  will  be 
offering  tree  introductory  workshops.  6:00-8.00pm 
from  10/30-12/4.  At  555  Amory  St.  Call  524-3010  to 
pre-register  or  for  Info. 

Cambridge  ♦  Job  search  support  group.  Cambridge 
Women's  Center.  6:30-8:30  pm.  Info:  354-8807. 

Boston  ♦  Sales  Networks  Program  for  G/L  Business 
Owners  and  Supporters  of  the  Community.  7:30  to 
9:30  a.m.  The  Center.  338  Newbury  St..  2nd  fir. 
Registration  required:  Marc  Spencer  262-2400. 

Hyde  Park  ♦  Women's  Pick-Up  Hockey.  MDC  Hyde 
Park  Rink  (near  Dedham).  8  to  9  a.m.  Info:  Janice 
326-1600  X350. 

Boston  ♦  Boston  Alliance  of  G/L  Youth  (BAGLY). 
Open  to  youth  age  22  and  under.  35  Bowdoin  St. 
New  persons'  meeting  6  pm.;  women  and  men  meet 
separately  6:45  to  7:30;  general  meeting  7:30  pm. 
(800)  42-BAGLY. 

Cambridge  ♦  Lesbian  Al-Anon.  Wheelchair  accessi¬ 
ble.  Women’s  Center,  46  Pleasant  St.  6:30  to  8  p.m. 
354-8807. 

Worcester  ♦  Supporters  of  Worcester  Area  G/L 
Youth  (SWAGLY).  Social  support  grp.  for  youths  22 
and  under.  7  to  9  p.m.  United  Congregational 
Church.  6  Institute  Road.  7  to  9  p.m.  (508)  755- 
0005. 

Boston  ♦  "Say  it  Sister* — feminist,  gay-positive 
radio.  WMBR  88.1  FM.  7pm. 

Bridgewater  ♦  S.  Shore  G/L  Alliance.  7:30  to  9  p.m. 
Bridgewater  Ctr.  Primarily  a  social  group  of  age  25+. 
but  all  welcome.  Info:  Glen  293-5183  or  Dave  294- 
0367. 

Worcester  ♦  Support  Group  for  HIV+  who  are  In 
Substance  Abuse  Recovery.  Closed  meeting.  AIDS 
Project  Worcester.  305  Shrewsbury  St.  7:30  to  9 
p.m.  (508)  755-3773. 

Amherst  ♦  Queer  Nation  meets  6:00-7:00pm  at 
Bangs  Community  Center,  70  Boltwood  Wak.  Info: 
P.O.  Box  202,  Hadley,  MA  01035  or  (413)  584- 
4213. 

Thursdays 

Worcester  ♦  "Face  the  Music."  A  radio  show  by  and 
for  lesbians.  WCUW  91 .3  FM.  8-9pm.  Request  line, 
(508)  753-2284 

Boston  ♦  The  Boston  Monthly  HIV  Medical  Update. 
2nd  Thursday  of  each  month  at  7:30pm.  John 
Hancock  Conference  Center,  40  Trinity  Place  (near 
Copley  Green  and  Back  Bay/South  End  Orange  T 
stations).  Info:  262-3456. 

Somerville  ♦  The  Thursday  Night  Dinner  Program 
offers  meals  to  PWA’s  HIV+  and  friends  at  the 
Methodist  Church.  One  block  from  Davis  Square 
Red  Line  Station.  Info:  666-4130. 

Portsmouth,  NH  ♦  Out  and  About.  A  lesbian  social 
and  support  group.  Info:  Keryn  (603)  749-5852. 

Provlncetown  ♦  Positive  PWA  Coalition  Weekly 
Rap  Session.  7:30.  155  Bradford  St.  Peer  led.  (508) 
487-3998. 

Boston  ♦  Coalition  for  Lesbian  and  Gay  Civil  Rights 
general  meeting.  Third  Thurs.  of  every  month.  6:30- 
8  pm.  The  Center,  Room  206,  338  Newbury  St. For 
Info  266-2956. 

Boston  ♦  Lesbian  and  Gay  Caucus  of  the  National 
Writer's  Unlon.The  Center.  6-8pm.  338  Newbury  St. 
For  Info  442-4693,  344-8096. 

Fridays 

Watertown  ♦  GLOW:  G/L  of  Watertown.  395-4664. 
Boston  ♦  GCN  Friday  Night  Stuffing  Party.  Come 
stuff  the  paper,  eat  pizza,  and  make  new  friends. 
GCN.  62  Berkeley  St.  5  p.m.  426-4469. 

Provlncetown  ♦  Safe  Sex  Brigade  and  Antl-L/G/B 


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While  the  progressive  community  seeks  many  of  the  sme  goals  that  Unions 
are  actively  working  for,  it  is  unfortunate  that  sometimes  we  forget  how  important  it  is  to  support  Union 
labor.  As  non-profits,  Unions,  AIDS  organizations,  gay  /lesbian/queer  organizations,  foundations,  progressive 
organizations,  or  gay  and  lesbian  community  health  centers  like  the  Fenway,  the  key  to  our  existence 

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discrimination  clause  based  on  sexual  orientation,  as  well  as  domestic  partner 
bereavement  benefits.  However,  these  agreements  mean  nothing  without  a  signed 
contract,  which  Burke,  a  local  distributor  of  Miller,  will  not  agree  to.  In  fact,  they 
have  hired  the  notorious  union-busting  consulting  firm  West  Coast  Industrial 
Relations  in  order  to  stonewall  Teamsters  Local  122,  which  represents  Burke 
workers.  West  Coast  Industrial  is  a  consulting  firm  that  exists  only  to  bust 
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